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Original Message 1/14 16-Jul-02 @ 02:40 PM - help, i'm depressed

bedwyr

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*sniff*

not haveing backed up, not having a surge protector, i pulled the wrong plug out and fried my hard drive. bios won't see it, so i've just had to buy a new one. nearly two years work, some bits are backed up (a few logic songs) but the vast majority aren't.

*sniff* *sniff*

so who are the people who retrieve data from hard drives then? how much does it cost?

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Message 2/14 16-Jul-02 @ 04:40 PM - RE: help, i'm depressed

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eh?... how can you fry your harddrive like that?.. not possible surely?.. just pulling out the plug is like just shutting down without a proper shutdown sequence surely (i've done by accident enuff times as a newbie back in the day, and no worries)

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Message 3/14 16-Jul-02 @ 04:41 PM - RE: help, i'm depressed

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have you tried to access the drive in DOS ??

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Message 4/14 16-Jul-02 @ 04:44 PM - RE: help, i'm depressed

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yeah nothing in dos either. the wire in the plug was loose, it must have shorted it.

i've seen one quote �680 for 30gig. ouch.

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Message 5/14 16-Jul-02 @ 04:50 PM - RE: help, i'm depressed

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sounds like you blew a component on the drive, the platters are prolly ok tho - yes it costs fucking packets to get data back from dead drives - sorry mate - hence my insistant advice on DT to buy a SMALL audio drive and use backup carts & a backup drive too.

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Message 6/14 16-Jul-02 @ 04:58 PM - RE: help, i'm depressed

beds

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yeah, but i never listen to advise, it's just too easy

anyone reckon i can get the component board froma second hand identical drive, and just swap for the one i got? look easy, some screws and a litle snap on connection to the platters.

"it looks easy" - R.I.P.

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Message 7/14 16-Jul-02 @ 05:12 PM - RE: help, i'm depressed

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well it could work... i dunno.. opening a drive up.. eeek !

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Message 8/14 16-Jul-02 @ 05:18 PM - RE: help, i'm depressed

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thing is i wouldn't have to open it, the platters are encased, the board is screwed onto the outside, and connects through a snap on 4 wire connector.

haven't looked under the board though, might be more connections there.

just got another quote �85 within a week, feel a bit better now.

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Message 9/14 16-Jul-02 @ 06:44 PM - RE: help, i'm depressed

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excellent - good luck mate - (and get some backup drive PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!)

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Message 10/14 16-Jul-02 @ 07:12 PM - RE: help, i'm depressed

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damn, 85+vat is only for a diagnosis, then more depending on what is wrong.

anyone had any experience of this? i don't want to fork out a 100 squids only for them to tell me it's gonna be another 500, unless i got it covered.

what do you reckon about all the cracked software? think they'd snitch?

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Message 11/14 17-Jul-02 @ 06:46 PM - RE: help, i'm depressed

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as I understand it you are allowed to have a cracked copy of software that you own... Correct?

How can you get in trouble if you don't like inserting your cd constantly? or what if you were to lose your cd?

That's your software. tell'em to mind their own damn business...

my 2 cents

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Message 12/14 17-Jul-02 @ 07:14 PM - RE: help, i'm depressed

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I've had Maxtor's setup utility program see and duplicate all the data on a drive the computer couldn't access anymore.

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Message 13/14 18-Jul-02 @ 01:14 PM - RE: help, i'm depressed

beds

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hmm. mine was a imb deathstar, notorious for bad sectors, but not the worst for power surge damage.

here's some feedback i got

"Some drives can be prone to power surges; Fujitsu and Quantum drives spring to mind. Quite often the data on the drive remains intact; it's just the electrics that need sorting out.

I can give you an exact price if you can tell me what drive you have; if (for example) it's a Fujitsu, the price on a no fix no fee is �960."

i bet the scum does it out of a garage in swindon. 960? bloody hell, if i can do this for the price of a new (second hand even) drive and just swap the electronics, it's gonna cost me 50 max. still, if i fck it up ...

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Message 14/14 18-Jul-02 @ 01:42 PM - RE: help, i'm depressed

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Don't know if this is of any use to you seeing as how you can't actually see the hard drive in Windows but it might have some useful information.....

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?s=380ebb542832095e864cd9f612e47c54&threadid=120811

A complete forum thread on how to sort your dodgy IBM hard disk out!

Si.

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