Re: total hard drive failure

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I recently experienced a total hard drive failure. It failed to spin up and
as you would know, it was the drive that contained ALL of my created files.
I do backup but once a month just after all the new financial data is
stored. The failure occurred on March 28 and as the "fickle finger of fate"
would have it, a recent project, creating a dozen or so new logons and
passwords was on the drive but not backed up.

Chatting with a business friend (computer repairman) he suggested to chill
the drive down (in the freezer) and give it a try. I chilled the drive down
to Martini temperature, put it back in the computer, switched on the power,
the drive light flashed, but didn't spin up. Tried booting a few more times
and on the last attempt, pounded on the drive with the handle of a medium
size screwdriver and all of a sudden, the whirr of the drive spun up!
Transferred the 4+ gigs of files to a new Seagate Cheetah drive. It was my
Easter miracle (but no Smokey Robinson <G>).

I also change my backup procedures:
No longer use DVDs, now use space on the second new Seagate. Backup. Times
went from 4 hours on tape, to 1 hour on DVD to now 30 minutes on the hard
drive. (10+ gigs of programs and data).

P.S. DVD backup is about as reliable as parachutes from the Acme Cheesecloth
Company.

P.S. II I have three SCSI drives and it was the D drive that went bad.
Replaced the D drive and put the original D in the E drive bay. Just move
the strapping down a position. I love SCSI.

Give the refrigerator a try.
If it works, once the data on the old drive is transferred, shred the data
on the bad drive.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


"Donald C. McNeilly" <dc.mcneilly@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Op8GvXwNFHA.244@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Yup, had one of those so my original web site, pub 02, is gone with a
recent
> update. I have a backup but without the most recent changes. Is there any
> way of taking the 'publish to website' files and converting them back into
a
> pub file? I have both 02 and 03, older versions if necessary but not
loaded
> at this time.
>
> Have had lots of help from this and the regular Publisher site and really
> appreciate any assistance as this is all volunteer work for a nonprofit.
>
> Donald
>
>


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