Re: HDD problems

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From: Steve Cargill
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 00:00

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In article <816475560snz@c4rv.demon.co.uk>
           raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk "Rajesh Varia" writes:

> A friend of mine has a problem with his 4 gig Quantum Grand Prix
> drive.  When he powers up the machine, the drives sounds like
> its going to spin-up for about a second and then it just dies.
> 
> If there a simple solution that does not involve returning the
> drive to Quantum (expected to take 4-6 weeks to return).  He
> also has about 300 meg of unbacked-up data on the drive (sods
> law, he powers down the machine to plug in the DAT drive and
> it fails), so he would like it working again.

Rajesh, I assume he's removed the DAT to check that isn't affecting
the HD?


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Steve Cargill
SteveC@bitmap-brothers.co.uk

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