Tom
Administrator
- Joined
- Jan 13, 2005
- Posts
- 51,932
tyefighter said:Tom, stay away from the geek squad, they don't know anything.
Thanks. I think I figured that out pretty quickly today
tyefighter said:Tom, stay away from the geek squad, they don't know anything.
Any more good news Karl?
Also, try switching it to another USB port or remove from case and hard wire it into a DMA slot on the MB.
Karl said:back in the 'bad old days' before hard drives were of any decent capacity, 1/2" magnetic tape was the only viable storage medium for large amounts of data.
There are professional services that take the drives apart and use their own brand of smoke and mirrors to get your stuff back, but they are extremely expensive.
Ned said:So, did you recover your data from the drive?
Tom said:Thanks Ned, I was afraid of that. Any more good news for me?
BTW I assume I could merely reformat the drive and re-use it as a fresh drive? ??? OTOH I'm not sure I'd be comfortable relying on the drive as my backup again.