Jack,
Put the failed drive in a zip lock bag, then that in another zip .lock bag.? I usually put the double bagged drive in the freezer for at least 24 hours.? Once you take it out of the freezer, you have about 45 minutes to reconnect the drive and try to recover your data.? This has worked for me over the past 35 years.
Larry - AC8YE
On Friday, February 21st, 2025 at 12:47 PM, jjpurdum via groups.io <jjpurdum@...> wrote:
I have the C boot drive which is a SSD, but only 500G, my D drive, which holds everything and is 1 TB and the drive that died, and drive F which is a 2T hot-swap backup drive. D no longer shows up in Windows Explore or the Disk Manager. I'm hoping it's a faulty/dirty connector which I will check when I tear the system down later today. If that doesn't work, how long in the fridge? If that fails, I'll go over to Al's and put it in an old system he has and see if that controller can find it. If that doesn't work, I've lost a tremendous amount of non-T41 stuff and I'll start shopping for a large pile of kindling and a very flammable Viking ship.
Jack, W8TEE
On Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:18:23 PM EST, jerry-KF6VB <jerry@...> wrote:
On 2025-02-21 06:47, jjpurdum via groups.io wrote:
> Also, I have other distractions now. At some time yesterday my main
> data drive died
*** That sucks.? Did it die completely, or just lose data?? Sometimes
they
can be read by putting the drive in the fridge.
? I have a unique system.? I don't keep anything important on my desktop
PC.? Instead, I have a Linux server running the Samba suite that acts as
a
windows fileserver.? I actually have three of those servers;? two
active, and
the third being upgraded to a newer Linux.? Also, I do an encrypted
incremental
backup to the cloud once a week.? The server in use backs itself up to
the second hot server every night.
? So far, I've been lucky.? Have had some close calls, but never lost it
all.
My email queue goes back to 1989!? Back then I didn't have real
Internet.? My PC
ran a program called "UUPC" that dialed up another computer and
transferred mail and
netnews via the UUCP protocol.? I had it on a 24 hour timer.? In the
middle of the night,
it would come on for a few hours.? UUPC was in the autoexec.bat.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? - Jerry, KF6VB
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Jack, W8TEE
Larry - AC8YE