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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:58:15 +0100, "Jonathan Roberts" <jonathan.roberts.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >'ello again, > >I've got a hard drive here that I think is *almost* finished. When the >computer boots you can here it trying to spin, kind of like a car >engine struggling to turn over, but the system fails to detect it. Any >other possible cause and are there fixes that would get significantly >more life out of it? > >It is pretty old now, an old 10gb drive, must be about 10 years old! > >Cheers, > >Jon I think you are right, the drive sounds finished. But for the people searching the archive in the future, I have just purchased a 2nd (or 3rd) hand machine where the 20Gb drive was totally unreadable. I went out and bought a new 250Gb replacement, and when I went to fit it I found the HD cable had been squashed against a ty-wrap on one of the PSU cables, and this has punched a hole through one of the HD cable wires :-/ This machine also had a memory chip not fitted properly, I am not going back to that shop again (at least not on a Saturday) best regards Dave -- http://www.morgad.no-ip.info/index.html gpg:0x64B5E037 Distributed Proofreaders: http://www.pgdp.net The NTP server pool http://www.pool.ntp.org The L&B is being rebuilt! http://www.lynton-rail.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html