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Offline funkedup

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Re: Victory!!
« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2003, 01:27:10 PM »
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I threw it inside another machine, booted off a good HD, and I can now somehow access the files.

The old, crap HD is unbootable (bad boot sector?), but I was able to recover most of the important info running File Scavenger from the good HD.  

The old, crap Western Digital is a phantom... works when it feels like it.


You might try a reformat on the bad HD once you have backed up your data.  I had an IBM do the same things you are describing, and it has worked fine since I reformatted it.
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Offline ramzey

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Western Digital 80gb HD dies.
« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2003, 09:38:07 AM »
I know 6 ppls /including myself/ who lost data on HDD IBM 40+GB last 4 month.

IBM if very fragille on power dump:(

but i have samsung 16GB, working about 18 h per day whole year and still running:)

Samsung rulez?;)

ramzey
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Western Digital 80gb HD dies.
« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2003, 05:26:09 AM »
IBM had a big quality problem with their factory in Hungary.
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