> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > On Behalf Of john boris > > 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
Sometimes it makes a difference, to connect power, disconnect power, connect power, etc, until it spins up. Depending on what's wrong. Sometimes it makes a difference to cool it. I have once before, recovered a hard drive by submerging it in ice water (in a plastic bag.) Without the ice water, the drive would stay on about 30 seconds. With the ice water, about 10 minutes. Copy some files off... Wait 15 minutes... Try again... Definitely focus intelligently on recovering the files you care about most. Because it's likely you won't get the whole drive contents. Also, the longer you have it powered on, the shorter it will likely be able to stay on. You might get an hour the first time, 15 minutes the second time, 1 minute the 3rd time, and then never again. _______________________________________________ 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/
