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On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 02:47:27 PM Dale wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> Hi, |
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> >> |
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> >> For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. |
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> >> Here> |
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> >> is the info: |
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> > <SNIP> |
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> >> What you folks think? Can I fix it somehow? I got a good shovel |
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> >> handy just in case. |
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> >> |
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> >> Dale |
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> > |
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> > Start doing backups before you write even 1 more email! ;;-) |
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> > |
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> > - Mark |
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> Well, it was in my brothers winders rig. Winders couldn't do anything |
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> but puke on the keyboard so I brought it down here and put it in my old |
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> Linux rig. I mounted it ro and got the data off it FIRST THING. |
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Good idea... |
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MS Windows has a tendency not to be able to handle failing disks... |
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> There |
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> was a boatload of pictures from their camera. Anyway, the data seems to |
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> be safe tho a few may have gotten messed up. I got to test that in a bit. |
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If there were no read errors, any damaged files were caused by ms windows, not |
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the disk. |
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> Is this terminal or can something be done to correct this? I did run |
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> the dd command before I ran the selftest. I don't think it matters but |
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> thought it wouldn't hurt either. If it is terminal, I'll get my |
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> screwdriver out and see what these drives look like on the inside. The |
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> last one I looked into was a old 14" thing many years ago. Platters |
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> were about the size of 33 rpm records. lol Dang I'm old. O_O |
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If SMART is saying it will die in 24 hours it will make a nice doorstop :) |
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I wouldn't use it for data (even throw away stuff) anymore. |
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Joost |
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