Ah, yes, the joys of drives that don't quite have enough force to spin up past the friction of congealing lubrication. I remember having to do that to a few drives back in the day when we moved offices at that same ISP. As long as the drives were running they were fine, but a power failure or such and they would have problems spinning up. I was very glad when we retired all of those models. (This was back in... 98, so I dont really remember much more detail than that.)
-- ~*~ 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 10:29 AM, john boris <jbori...@gmail.com> wrote: > I understand that. I have used the handle of a Wooden screw driver to sort > of "shock" a drive back to life. When it started we almost had to sit on > the tower case to keep it still. Surprisingly I got a good backup off of > that unit. > > Trust me this bad boy is not getting shutdown until I have what I need. > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Morgan Blackthorne <stormeri...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> 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 <jbori...@gmail.com> 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 <t...@cabeen.org> 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 >>>> > Tech@lists.lopsa.org >>>> > 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 >>>> Tech@lists.lopsa.org >>>> 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 >>> Tech@lists.lopsa.org >>> 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 >
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