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re: 2nd hard drive
Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 1:35 pm
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Posted by John Machin (10 messages posted)


By failed, I meant it's no longer visible in it's own PC (Packard Bell 5 years old). Bootup floppy and Packard Bell CD do not help. Hard drive makes ticking noises sometimes (I believe bad sectors??). I was led to believe that I could rescue data by installing in another PC. As you can tell, I dont know much about these things - is this not possible?


On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 1:25 pm, Ricer46 wrote:
>If it's truly failed, I don't know why you even thought that might work. Your only
>chance is an (expensive) data recovery service.
>
>


Written in response to:
re: 2nd hard drive (Ricer46: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 1:25 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: 2nd hard drive (xpadvisor: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 1:44 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-2nd hard drive (John Machin: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 12:25 pm)
*Failed in what way? *nt* (Tye Campbell: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 12:27 pm)
-re: 2nd hard drive (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 1:25 pm)
-re: 2nd hard drive (John Machin: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 1:35 pm)
*re: 2nd hard drive (xpadvisor: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 1:44 pm)
-re: 2nd hard drive (Tom Myboy: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 4:38 pm)
*re: 2nd hard drive (John Machin: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 5:07 pm)
*re: 2nd hard drive (Brian: Sat, Oct 25, 2003, 7:45 am)
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