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On Friday, May 21, 2004 5:07:20 PM UTC-7, R3Jar wrote:
Has anybody repaired a hardrive? I have a quantum fireball 30 GB hardrive that when my house caught on fire it looks like a small surface mount chip on the printed circuit board fried. The board looks like it could be replaced. It is on the bottom of the drive and the connector is attached to it. The drive has essential data on it and I think I could swap it out and be back in business. Anybody have any thoughts on this? TIA Roy |
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On 15/07/2012 4:38 PM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
John Robertson wrote: wrote: On Friday, May 21, 2004 5:07:20 PM UTC-7, R3Jar wrote: Has anybody repaired a hardrive? I have a quantum fireball 30 GB hardrive that when my house caught on fire it looks like a small surface mount chip on the printed circuit board fried. The board looks like it could be replaced. It is on the bottom of the drive and the connector is attached to it. The drive has essential data on it and I think I could swap it out and be back in business. Anybody have any thoughts on this? TIA Roy If the data is irreplaceable (and valuable to you) then you want to check out a few of the businesses who recover data from drives. They should be able to handle drives that have been in a fire. There are a LOT of things to consider with heat and smoke, not the least is smoke makes conductive paths that you can't see but can destroy electronics if powered up. Heat can damage the bearings on the drive which means if you try to spin it up your drive motor could seize up or the bearing could fail and drag the heads across the discs destroying them... You don't want to screw things up really now do you? John, that post is over eight years old. Amazing what pops up really !! Like we are in a time warp. R.P |
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Rheilly Phoull wrote: On 15/07/2012 4:38 PM, Michael A. Terrell wrote: John Robertson wrote: wrote: On Friday, May 21, 2004 5:07:20 PM UTC-7, R3Jar wrote: Has anybody repaired a hardrive? I have a quantum fireball 30 GB hardrive that when my house caught on fire it looks like a small surface mount chip on the printed circuit board fried. The board looks like it could be replaced. It is on the bottom of the drive and the connector is attached to it. The drive has essential data on it and I think I could swap it out and be back in business. Anybody have any thoughts on this? TIA Roy If the data is irreplaceable (and valuable to you) then you want to check out a few of the businesses who recover data from drives. They should be able to handle drives that have been in a fire. There are a LOT of things to consider with heat and smoke, not the least is smoke makes conductive paths that you can't see but can destroy electronics if powered up. Heat can damage the bearings on the drive which means if you try to spin it up your drive motor could seize up or the bearing could fail and drag the heads across the discs destroying them... You don't want to screw things up really now do you? John, that post is over eight years old. Amazing what pops up really !! Like we are in a time warp. It was a spammer's attemt to get past Google's new reporting system. Find a dead thread and reply to it, then change the subject line and reply again. You can't find it to report it, without wading through all the open threads. |
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It was a spammer's attemt to get past Google's new reporting system. Find a dead thread and reply to it, then change the subject line and reply again. You can't find it to report it, without wading through all the open threads. I'm not really up to speed on these things, but of what benefit is this to the Spammer? Gareth. |
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Gareth Magennis wrote: It was a spammer's attemt to get past Google's new reporting system. Find a dead thread and reply to it, then change the subject line and reply again. You can't find it to report it, without wading through all the open threads. I'm not really up to speed on these things, but of what benefit is this to the Spammer? If you can't find it, you can't flag it. This case was stupid, because the thread was so old. To be effective, it needs to be in a recent thread with no activity. That way, if someone reads that thread, or post to it from any NNTP server, it will show up. |
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Michael A. Terrell wrote:
John Robertson wrote: wrote: On Friday, May 21, 2004 5:07:20 PM UTC-7, R3Jar wrote: Has anybody repaired a hardrive? I have a quantum fireball 30 GB hardrive that when my house caught on fire it looks like a small surface mount chip on the printed circuit board fried. The board looks like it could be replaced. It is on the bottom of the drive and the connector is attached to it. The drive has essential data on it and I think I could swap it out and be back in business. Anybody have any thoughts on this? TIA Roy If the data is irreplaceable (and valuable to you) then you want to check out a few of the businesses who recover data from drives. They should be able to handle drives that have been in a fire. There are a LOT of things to consider with heat and smoke, not the least is smoke makes conductive paths that you can't see but can destroy electronics if powered up. Heat can damage the bearings on the drive which means if you try to spin it up your drive motor could seize up or the bearing could fail and drag the heads across the discs destroying them... You don't want to screw things up really now do you? John, that post is over eight years old. Ah, wasn't paying attention to the internal date, only noticed that it was a 'new' posting. Thanks for bringing this scam to my(and the newsgroups') attention, Michael, - I'll keep an eye out in the future! John :-#)# -- (Please post followups or tech enquiries to the newsgroup) John's Jukes Ltd. 2343 Main St., Vancouver, BC, Canada V5T 3C9 Call (604)872-5757 or Fax 872-2010 (Pinballs, Jukes, Video Games) www.flippers.com "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out." |
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John Robertson wrote: Michael A. Terrell wrote: John Robertson wrote: wrote: On Friday, May 21, 2004 5:07:20 PM UTC-7, R3Jar wrote: Has anybody repaired a hardrive? I have a quantum fireball 30 GB hardrive that when my house caught on fire it looks like a small surface mount chip on the printed circuit board fried. The board looks like it could be replaced. It is on the bottom of the drive and the connector is attached to it. The drive has essential data on it and I think I could swap it out and be back in business. Anybody have any thoughts on this? TIA Roy If the data is irreplaceable (and valuable to you) then you want to check out a few of the businesses who recover data from drives. They should be able to handle drives that have been in a fire. There are a LOT of things to consider with heat and smoke, not the least is smoke makes conductive paths that you can't see but can destroy electronics if powered up. Heat can damage the bearings on the drive which means if you try to spin it up your drive motor could seize up or the bearing could fail and drag the heads across the discs destroying them... You don't want to screw things up really now do you? John, that post is over eight years old. Ah, wasn't paying attention to the internal date, only noticed that it was a 'new' posting. Thanks for bringing this scam to my(and the newsgroups') attention, Michael, - I'll keep an eye out in the future! I figured out what he was up to when I flagged more of that stupid 'Solution' spam on Google groups. That thread popped up, and I saw the blank reply where they test posted, then the one with a different subject line for the 'Water Damage' spam. |
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