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Thread ID: 81267 2007-07-22 09:54:00 HDD CLONK NOISE notechyet (4479) Press F1
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571515 2007-07-26 01:22:00 If you can find someone local who is familiar with the Linux command line you might get lucky. This sort of thing can't be done by "remote control" with a kiddy script. You need to interact with the system.

But I suspect it's past human help.
Graham L (2)
571516 2007-07-27 07:37:00 I did some reading on the hard drive in the freezer trick a few months ago, and one guy actually went to the extremes of hooking his drive up on a USB interface (from an external drive) so he could power it up and read it while it was still in the freezer.
Apparently it ran successfully for about an hour - giving him plenty of time to recover the data off it - but a lot depends on how bad the problem is. Data errors are more recoverable than mechanical ones.
supertrouper (6665)
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