[jaws-uk] Re: Disc failure. and Defrag etc.
- From: "Phil Medway" <philmedway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:43:43 -0000
There is also a school of thought that, putting the drive in the freezer for
a while then replacing it back in a pc can sometimes give you just the time
you need to get the important data off of it. This method is, however, not
for the faint-hearted and is by no means foolproof. It is also a one off
chance.
Hard drives should be treated like your most precious pieces of glassware.
In other words don't knock it. Quite a small jolt can cause irreparable
harm.
It is worth buying a trailing socket with surge protection since power
surges can also cause disks to fail.
After all of that there is, of course, the chance that the drive has just
become faulty without any external interference.
Hey Ho! It's a cruel life!
Regards,
Phil Medway.
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 3:17 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Disc failure. and Defrag etc.
You could always send your drive away to a disk drive
recovery company who will attempt to retrieve the data.=20
If my 30 GB laptop drive is anything to go by, it will only
cost around seven hundred and fifty pounds.
George.
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 23 March 2006 15:12
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jaws-uk] Disc failure. and Defrag etc.
A very nice man came from Viglen and he worked very hard
indeed. He told me that the disc going was just bad luck. I
did tell me I did a Defrag but carefully. He acknowledged
the system is vulnerable whilst doing a Defrag but was sure
it was not the cause of the problem, I did say the desktop
has been crashing for a fairly long while now at least a
couple of times a day
he said contact them if that happens. He couldn't been
nicer. He would
have loaded all my software again but for some reason Jaws
would not speak I gave him the floppy disc and the patch
which was actually not a patch but the programme with the
patch on it. he said it said 119 on it. anyway I think Tony
said just ask them to put Windows on and the Firewall
Norton the drivers etc and anyway Lunar and then Kurzweil
all has to go on. I was very impressed at the courtesy of
this young man. I asked him which
computer do you use? Yes you have guessed it he puts
together his own. I
then said which ISP. and he said NTL, but I think that is
cable and I do not have that here. Asking which antivirus,
he used Norton. Well he was so bright you need to pick a
brain or 2 don't you. His last words were " now do not
forget to back up" since all I have lost cannot retrieved I
shall
look upon it as a lesson. Ps I have a Demo version of
Jaws seven which
Tony was reluctant to try, maybe I shall give it a go then.
One last thing I asked about is cookies do you keep some or
not. He said they sometimes make it quicker to get to
somewhere you have been before but in his opinion get rid
of all of them or you will be plagued with Spam, he uses
Spybot. Incidentally has anyone heard of Bulldog? Dorothy
Ps the disc is in a sealed unit in silver cover and you
wouldhave tohave a post mortem most likely for a full
diagnosis. I know the system has not felt very ,I cannot
think of another word but I think many will understand what
I mean, it seemed a bit sick, and off colour all the time
so I thought I would perk it up with Defrag, in spite of
what George says I will still be wary of doing it again..
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