[CQ-Contest] Hard-disc recovery ?

[Ron St.Laurent]

While we're telling hard drive war stories . . .

I had one that made a "grinding" noise before it died.  I tipped the CPU on
its side and was able to get it running again . . . long enough to remove my
data.

Ron ND5S

There are 2 kinds of hard drives, ones that have crashed and ones that will
crash.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr at contesting.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:50
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Hard-disc recovery ?


>
> At 06:03 AM 12/17/01 -0800, Mike Gilmer - N2MG wrote:
> >
> >On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 02:08:18 +0100, Ragnar Otterstad wrote:
> >
> >> I just had a hard disc crash. With it went my logs.
> >> Can somebody tell me if it
> >> is possible to read/ restore  a bad hard-drive.
> >
> >Yes, it's *possible*, but it depends on just how bad the disk is damaged.
> I had a drive that went south (I could no longer boot from it).  I
> unplugged the bad drive (left in place physically) and installed a new
hard
> disk, made it bootable, installed the OS, etc.  I then re-installed the
bad
> drive as D: and I could then read it.  I quickly copied off all the
> important files.
> >
> >If you have a bootable floppy of the same version OS, you might be able
to
> boot from the floppy and then access the hard disk.
>
> The utility "Spin-Rite" (www.grc.com) offers data recovery in some
> circumstances, and it is a lot more economical than any professional
> service.  As Mike said, though, it depends on the nature of the damage.
>
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> www.qsl.net/n4zr
>
>
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