Re: [IRCA] HD failure HELP!

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I was first on scene last night when Walt called me --

I actually work in this biz.

I advised him to 1st remove the drive from the bay and test again -
he did and the PWR led came on.

Returning the WD HD to the bay caused the power light to go out.

I believe Walt scrounged a much smaller drive and put it in
the bay to see what would happen - the LED remained on.

Hard-drives do not generally die after a few hours of use.
Most of us know this by the stack of still functional sub-Gb 
drives that are sitting on our shelves or still in old computers.

I also suggested that he double zip-lock bag the HD and put it in the
freezer. This is usually good for very old drives who are about
to experience the dreaded "hammer of death" where you can hear
the read arm in the drive smacking against the detentes in the mechanism.

It is also possible that the controller card on the HD has failed.
HD platters do not generally suffer catastrophic failure after a month --
so his data is probably intact.

Let's all say a collective non-denominational prayer for Walt's data, shall we?


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Colin Newell - Editor/Creator coffeecrew.com | dxer.ca
Web-Design / E-Commerce / Writing
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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