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The Really Bad News.. Product Delays (Data Recovered)
Gamecab:
All,
Last Saturday my PC's hard drive suffered an electical problem which burnt out the PC board of the drive.
gprime:
Wow, that really stinks.
I think I need to invest in a backup solution before it's too late.
2 year old hard disks running on a RAID-0 is just asking for troube.
Gamecab:
The Only PLUS side in the is that I did remove the old PCB from the hard drive and replaced it with the PCB from another hard drive. The Harddrive spun up but was reported as a failure in my Bios. This was due to the fact that the drive PCB was from a different Western Digital drive (40GB).
As soon as I Zapped by hard drive I smelled the funky smell of electronic parts that just were not strong enough to take the load they were dealt. When I removed the board I noticed a dark discoloration in the insulation for the PCB as well as a bubble in one of the IC Chips. So with that in mind, I'm pretty sure a replacement board from the exact model will save the data.
Don't ask what I was doing when I overloaded the hard drive with current, but lets be thankfull that I didn't take the whole computer out in the process.
Flinkly:
so...what were you doing when it wonked out?
seriously though, i wouldn't be so interested if you wouldn't have mentioned not to ask
markrvp:
I weep for you Charlie. Just the fear of that is why I have a raid 0, +1 dual redundant server with an extra one-touch backup external drive just in case.
I'm not sure how many curse words you said, but I'm saying some more for you now. Just today I was wondering what happened to the volcano cones. Don't sweat it. Monday shipping is FINE.