Re: Laptop disk failure recovery

[<ldwopt@xxxxxxx>]

The hard drive on my laptop went flaky on me. I went to CompUSA and bought an 
enclosure for the drive. It hooked up to another PC via USB connection. I was 
able to get all the information off the drive, bought a new hard drive, 
installed the OS, installed user programs and copied the data back onto the 
drive
All was well

Dave Willenborg
Senior iSeries Engineer
FNTS
Omaha NE
---- Steve Landess <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Well, I just used the old tried and true method to get a laptop drive working 
> again (at least temporarily, that is...)
>
> 1) turn off computer
> 2) take out hard drive
> 3) hold drive by the edges
> 4) slam on flat surface several times
> 5) reinstall hard disk
> 6) Back it up as fast as possible!
>
> This is at least the 3rd time I've used this method successfully...
>
> - sjl
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