[s-cars] NAC: hard drive crash

[pkrasusky at ups.com]

Thanks for all the responses, especially those beyond "shoulda backed it
up" - gee, duh, thanks.

IBM Thinkpad T40 Centrino Windows XP 60gb.  It was spinning one day, I
heard it start chewing on itself, then it stopped and blue screened.  I
rebooted and it Failed to Find Operating System.

IT guy Norm here (SFest burgundy 951) took my HD and USB'd it to his T40
and his laptop "saw" the USB device as plugged in but nothing would
read.  Mine was spinning but not starting, no smellybad clutchbake or
anything.  Mine would spin, Norm tried tapping it briskly a few times,
no result.  I think it has since stopped spinning. 

What does this mean in the context of your questions below, I dunno?  

Thanks again, keep the insight coming to me offlist, remember to please
ping me with your email (and even cell's).  I had some of it in my Palm
but that wasn't connected in 1.5 years since Windows XP came here and
wouldn't load my Palm again.  Quite the library of S-Dom gathered here
over the years, ashes to ashes as of today...

-Paul d'oh K.


-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list at audifans.com [mailto:s-car-list at audifans.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 10:43 PM
To: Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK)
Subject: Re: [s-cars] NAC: hard drive crash

How do you mean it crashed?  Is it not spinning up or making noise or 
does it smell like burnt electronics or something or is your PC just not

booting?  Either way I'd put the drive into a working computer (using a 
new cable) as a second drive and see if you can get it to work.  Usually

they'll come and go before they finally don't work at all.  If you 
replace the drive with another one with windows (or whatever OS you use)

or at least get it into another computer that's already running, and it 
pops up, even for a few minutes, you might be able to salvage some data 
off of it.  Doing this also rules out the power plug and the cable as 
possible causes for the failure.

JR


pkrasusky at ups.com wrote:
>  
>
> Sorry for the WOB, I just got the fun chance to have my hard drive
crash
> here.  Lost ***everything***, suchsuch great news.
>
>
> My IT guy here says I'm f'd, but thought I'd ask yous heres if anyone
> has any insight on it for me.  60gb IBM.
>
> Let me know of any suggestions.  Just totally sucks.  If all of yous
who
> I'm in ever in contact with would kindly FLOOD me inbox with an email
> that would be great, gotta start rebuilding.  
>
> Still a bit speechless about this one.  Man.
>
>  
>
> -Paul too many eggs in one basket K.
>
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