[CQ-Contest] Hard-disc recovery ?

[Bruce Ferry]

Sometimes the freezer works too. Take out the drive, put in a sealed bag
(antistatic bag inside a ziploc bag) and cool it down in the freezer.
Don't actually freeze it, just get it down close to freezing. Has been
known to get it working long enough to pull the data off.

"Ron St.Laurent" wrote:
> 
> 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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Bruce Ferry, AK8B


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>From Steve London" <n2ic at arrl.net  Tue Dec 18 03:29:59 2001
From: Steve London" <n2ic at arrl.net (Steve London)
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 03:29:59 -0000
Subject: [CQ-Contest] M/S 10 Meter Contest - Question for Entrants
Message-ID: <OE39sBN1Kpef6uqdcXq00004106 at hotmail.com>


A question for you folks who entered the 10 meter contest Multi-Single :

Since the 10 meter contest does not require M/S participants to spend any
specific length of time on a mode, will any of you admit to using an octopus
arrangement (either manual, or software-controlled) to simultaneously
operate CW and SSB ?

To those of you too young to know what an octopus is, ask K5RC  :)  .

73,
Steve, N2IC/0


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