Chances are the disk probably cooled down overnight if you had it unplugged. As it heats up, it may fail again. Back up the most critical files first, then try to do a full copy of the disk; that way even if the full backup fails you've got the most critical files.
We once ran a drive inside a dorm fridge at the ISP I worked at to be able to recover data off of it. A friend of mine was an editor at a PC magazine and wrote up a short article about it. -- ~*~ StormeRider ~*~ "Every world needs its heroes [...] They inspire us to be better than we are. And they protect from the darkness that's just around the corner." (from Smallville Season 6x1: "Zod") On why I hate the phrase "that's so lame"... http://bit.ly/Ps3uSS On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:11 AM, john boris <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to close this out. I made a call to Datasavers and the cost would be > in the range of $740 to $2700 based on what was wrong. After telling my > boss that and reviving him I gave the hard drive one more shot and got it > back up and running. I must have done something right overnight. Anyway I > kicked off the backup and had a heart attack when it said it would take > over a day to do the back up. > I don't have the best backup system in my office. I will though after this > mess up. > > Thanks for the replies. > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Ted Cabeen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Even here in Southern California, we mail our drives to DriveSavers. >> I'd just mail the drive to one of the major national services. >> >> --Ted >> >> On 3/10/2014 3:43 PM, john boris wrote: >> > I am looking for hard drive recovery service recommendations in the >> > Philadelphia area. I did a Google seacrh and found a few places but was >> > wondering if anyone on the list has used any in the area and can >> > reccommend one. >> > >> > TIA >> > >> > -- >> > John J. Boris Sr. >> > Member of LOPSA Board of Directors >> > League of Professional System Administrators (lopsa.org < >> http://lopsa.org/>) >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Tech mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >> > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> > http://lopsa.org/ >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> > > > > -- > John J. Boris, Sr. > Online Services > www.onlinesvc.com > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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