On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:04:20 +0100, Steve Rance wrote: >Took drive out of case. >Powered it up and "smacked the crap out of it", I even used a few selected >swear words along with some verbal abuse. >Had no effect. > >Plan 2 is to drop said hard drive from 3rd floor window into car park, and try >again. I've tried plan already, or rather, a unix-colleauge did. Amazingly few pieces shattered... In fact only the power-connector was broken loose. This was a rather old fujitsu-hd. Maybe todays harddrives are more sensitive? 8-) BW, Sorin # Sorin Srbu, Systems Engineer Web: http://www.farmfak.uu.se/organisk/ # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >> 5 signals >> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile Phone: +46 (0)701-718023 # BMC, Box 574, Uppsala University Fax: +46 (0)18-4714474 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # # Public PGP key available on request. # # () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail # /\ ********************************************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm