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    Quote Originally Posted by drover81
    Ron,
    A trick I've heard floating around is putting the HDD in the freezer for a couple of hours and connecting it up to another PC in the morning...

    Apparently the freezing allows the drive to get enough amps into it to allow it to spin... may work, may not...!

    It may give you enough time get some data off it...

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    If you do that I think you end up with terminal condensation problems.

    Cheers
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    I got tired of losing stuff due to failed HDD's.
    Now I use two HDD's in the PC.
    Drive C takes care of the normal working activity such as, internet,
    anti virus etc.
    Drive D, I use for storage and since adapting this method I have not lost
    anything saved even tho Drive C HDD has **** itself twice already.

    I also periodicaly download large chunks from drive D to DVD to play safe !
    Cheers.

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    Thanks to Inc who shipped a drive from Caboolture yesterday, I have a brand new 250 Gb HDD in the PC and I'm currently installing Windows.

    Thanks Dave, great service from you and Australia Post to get a HDD over 1000km overnight.

    Hmm, I'm wondering whether to fit an old drive I have in as Drive C and installing Windows on it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by abaddonxi
    If you do that I think you end up with terminal condensation problems.

    Cheers
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    it does work... have used it from time to time.... also works on cd and dvd discs that are troublesome.... believe it or not....
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    Quote Originally Posted by p38arover
    Thanks to Inc who shipped a drive from Caboolture yesterday, I have a brand new 250 Gb HDD in the PC and I'm currently installing Windows.

    Thanks Dave, great service from you and Australia Post to get a HDD over 1000km overnight.

    Hmm, I'm wondering whether to fit an old drive I have in as Drive C and installing Windows on it.

    Ron
    good to see another happy customer ...

    the old drive would slow the box down heaps as the bus steps down to the speed of the slowest drive on most motherboards...
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    Thanks Dave. I won't install XP on an old drive.

    MS is now telling me that XP has been installed too many times - I'll have to talk to one of their support people.

    One problem has been that the XP I have doesn't support drives bigger than 137Gb so I'll download the Service Packs to see if that helps. Thje BIOS recognises it's a 250 Gb drive.

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    Hard Drive

    My Computer is a W98 its running a 1.1G Drive at the moment it sits on 100mb of free space. A kid gave me a 10G hard drive for free before he moved away and ive lost it while we were moving i wish i hadnt because now downloads are impossible with a little over 100mb and if it drops to 50mb it crashes, freezes or just doesnt go

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    Put the HDD in a sealed bag and place it in the freezer over night. When you pull it out put it strait in the computer and see what it does. If your lucky you will have time to retreive some or all of the data. Depends on what has failed.

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    I've called my wife and asked to put the drive in an anti-static bag and thence into the freezer. We'll see what happens. The drive is not spinning up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vandermorph
    My Computer is a W98 its running a 1.1G Drive at the moment it sits on 100mb of free space. A kid gave me a 10G hard drive for free before he moved away and ive lost it while we were moving i wish i hadnt because now downloads are impossible with a little over 100mb and if it drops to 50mb it crashes, freezes or just doesnt go
    I've got a 540 Mb drive you can have if you like. I gave my spare bigger drives to my son (they weren't very big - only about 10Gb)

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