I use the external hard drive cases with standard SATA drives installed all the
time with my laptop and camera as a package in my backpack.
I highly recommend these for all use of storage. Durable, portable, and able to
take them on and offline and move them around at by unplugging.
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3205203&Sku=D15-1094
Cheers.. Timothy-Keith: Randles
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I'm running away to join a different circus
----- Original Message ----
From: swisspace <swisspace@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 9:23:47 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Green? I'll say...
My suggestion would be to buy a new drive in an external housing of the
type that you can remove the drive and it is the same type as the pc
drive i.e. sata or ide.
swap the disks over and then reinstall the os on the new disk,
meanwhile
put the faulty disk in the case you have just bought and then place
the
whole thing in the fridge for a couple of hours. remove and connect as
external drive and if it spins up remove what data you can.
sometimes if you can find an identical disk then you can swap the
circuit board over, which if thats the problem may work. thats why I
bought five identical disks for my macpro instead of four, even though
its all duplicated.
good luck
IanW
Donald wrote:
> All this talk of green...
>
> I just had a hard drive refuse to mount, all I'm getting is
continuous
> clicking as it attempts to spin up. Of course, this is the data drive
of
> my secondary computer, upstairs. And everything is backed up. Eh....
>
> Except two shoots done when I was having 'issues' with the main
machine,
> that is.
>
> Anyone in the UK know any services that could save me?
>
> Sheepishly,
>
> D.
>
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