On 11/01/13 17:59, Per Jessen wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
On 2013-01-10 07:34, Per Jessen wrote:
I guess it still under warranty then. At least you'll get a replacement? Perhaps.
First I have to replace it on my own and clone it if possible. When that is done I'll see about warranty if available. Some years ago I bought a new (main) HDD which went belly-up within
On 11/01/13 01:45, Carlos E. R. wrote: the month - just went dead. So I took it back for replacement - and walked out of the shop with a replacement.
When I got to my car I realised that I forgot to ask a question from the tech and went back into the shop. The tech and the shop assistant where copying the all the data off my dead drive! Fortunately I didn't have anything personal or confidential on it. What were those two hdd experts doing in your local shop? Copying data off a dead drive is quite an achievement :-)
No idea how they got the HDD working because when I brought it in the tech put it on one of his machines and the HDD would not spin up which is why I was given a replacement. One possible way he got it going was as what occurred to a friend of mine in North America whose Maxtor (and my dead HDD was also a Maxtor) died a few months ago and as he couldn't afford to lose the data on it he bought a second-hand circuit board for it for $US35 on the off chance that this would get it working, installed it, and the HDD came back to life (and been running perfectly since). (Another trick some techos use is to put the HDD into a freezer compartment for (?)40 minutes or so and then try and spin it up. In this case though this couldn't have happened because I was back in the shop within 10 minutes.) BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.10.0 & kernel 3.7.1-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org