Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!
You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
You are not logged in. If you are already registered, fill in the form below to log in, or follow the "Sign Up" link to register a new account.
You may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
I once spent a delightfull 8 hours in the server room of a well known investment bank removing drives from IBM PS/2's tapping them with a rubber mallet and putting them back in again.
They'd had a DR excersise and shut everything down. When the IBM's came back up all the disks had stuck cos it had been so long since the last time they were powered down. ( 3 years ). A sharp tap with the mallet freed them up and got them going again.
Thanks all, and as for the "Ice Station Alpha" suggestion, I'll give it a try as I've got nothing to lose, though the owner of the PC unfortunately does.
I'm off home now to wind down for the weekend - so if anyone asks...
It's dead Jim. The clunking is probably the HDD stepper motor which means the HDD is fecked beyond DIY recovery. If there is anything hugely inportant on it they could pay a professional data recovery outfit to get it back but thats about it.
Never been that much into repairing PC's so don't know why I offered but I have a friends old PC at home that I'm trying to salvage some data from. It was running Windows ME ( I know , I know ) but all I get when I switch the thing on is an intermittent manual clunking sound ( presumably from the hard disk ?). Sometimes it gets as far as the "Safe Mode" menu but wont even boot into that now.
Is there anything I could do or should I just hand it back and say its a gonner ?
Leave a comment: