Them blasted hard drives...

From: Jim Donoghue <jim_at_smithy.com>
Date: Mon Mar 22 16:52:27 2004

> Someone's sent me the messages. I've also managed to get another 20
> minutes of life out of the drive by deep-freezing it for three hours.
> That and running it upside down.
> I think I'll strip it for parts tomorrow - it's well out of warranty and
> there are two neodymium magnets inside it that I want :)
>

I did that with the hard drive in the voice mail PC once. The software was
an obsolete DOS program, and the phone guys couldn't reinstall it. So, I
put the hard drive outside for a while (it was 30F outside), and it lasted
just long enough to copy the files from it.

Jim
Received on Mon Mar 22 2004 - 16:52:27 GMT