tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405662664343410797.post-30948549928424105772007-11-18T20:19:00.000-08:002007-12-05T18:01:09.909-08:00Today I spent about five hours foxing up my grandmother's computer. Recently it has been acting worse and worse. The wireless connection was sporadic, and overall it was just getting slow.<br /><br />Well, while I was attempting to fix the wireless issue, I restarted the computer. After the usual BIOS screen and such it went on to the next step, loading the OS... but it was nowhere to be found. The hard drive, a Maxtor drive that was about a decade old, had died!<br /><br />This, of course, is not a good thing. She's an architect, and all her drawing were on that drive. She has backups, but they could be weeks old by now. Well, after alot of muddling about with it, I got the idea to turn the computer on its side and boot it up again.<br /><br />It worked! Booted just fine, and got every last bit of important data off of it. Then, just for fun I put the computer upright again. Within just a few seconds it started locking up, and nearly crashed. The screen wasn't redrawing properly or anything. I put it back down on its side; The hard drive spun up again perfectly.<br /><br />So, if you have a <span style="font-style: italic;">hard drive failure</span>, what do you have to lose? Turn it on its side, and try again. Maybe it'll work! Perhaps you can get back your data. What do you have to lose?<br /><br />And please don't hesitate to leave a comment, or subscribe to my <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://felekar.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">RSS Feed</a></span>, every single one is greatly appreciated!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6405662664343410797-3094854992842410577?l=felekar.blogspot.com'/></div>Felekarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17678091882454447185noreply@blogger.com1