[mythtv-users] Lost my OS hard drive

[James Crow]

Graham Mitchell wrote:
>> Anyone else recommend the "stick it in the freezer" trick when all else
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> fails?
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> No... But I'd turn it on its side longways, and drop it onto a hard surface
> from a couple of inches height. I've cured a few head issues by doing
> that... Of course, if that works, the FIRST thing you need to do is to copy
> off the data you think you'll need... and then try and DD the drive onto
> another drive, or off into a file, which you use to lay down elsewhere.
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> G
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That is an interesting idea. One I have never heard before...

Thanks for suggestion, but it did not work. You did not specify, but I 
tried this without power being supplied to the drive. I will have to 
remeber that for the next drive I have that fails.

Thanks,
James