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Originally Posted by omgjacki
You're going to Wawa? Get me iced tea.
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all about the turkey hill ice tea
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Originally Posted by piku
But it's an external drive so it should just be a backup... right? You're not completed screwed even if it's fried. What I've done before is to buy the exact same model mechanism on ebay and swap the platters. It won't work for long afterwards, some of the data may be corrupted, and you have to do it in a super clean environment, but if you have nothing else to lose...
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not really, i got more data on that harddrive then i got room on my normal laptop harddrive, trying to transfer stuff over right now to my old external, but, i think the busted one just stopped spinning, cause the time for transfer keeps getting bigger and bigger, but the bar ain't moving
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Originally Posted by Big_Jim
Take the hard drive out of the enclosure. put it in ziplock bag. put in freezer for about 12 hours. Reinstall and try it again.
I've done this multiple times to HD's with the click of death.
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yeah, whenever i take stuff apart, it never seems to work right again
