On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Brian wrote: > I have an IBM De[sk|ath]Star 60GXP. Last night it finally bit the big > one, it's making whining and clicking sounds on startup. > > Does the freezer trick work on standard IDE drives? Any other tricks I > can try? The data stored on this thing is either backed up or mostly > irrelevant, but if I could grab my /home/ partition I'd feel a bit better > about it. when this happened to mine i turned it off after cursing for 30 minutes. went to sleep and it worked again in the morning. i got enough out of it to back my data up then i shipped it back to IBM Munir Nassar RedConcepts.NET _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list