Piers Hemy wrote:
> Nil desperandum, Donald!
>
> In my case it was a dicky main drive. I took the PC into my then-local
> "back-street" PC place, they ran a bit-copy from old drive to a new
> replacement, gave me back essentially the same computer with a spare hard
> disk (the dicky one) which had a few bad sectors.
>
> My suggestion is not to go to PC-world, but to find a local PC specialist,
> and if that doesn't work, there are for sure UK specialists who can help,
> look in the back pages of Personal Computer World.
>
> Except if yours is the same case as with a friend, who was persuaded to have
> dual hard-disks, one a mirror of the other, in the vain hope that it would
> provide automatic backup. It didn't, it couldn't, it just mirrored the
> corruption on one disk onto the other. "Just as it says on the tin".
>
> Big USB drives are getting ever cheaper - 50 quid should be easy to spend.
>
> --
> Piers
>
It was the second, data drive. Whipped it out and tried it in another
box, no dice. It might well be readable, but you'd have to get past the
interface.
PC World? I use it for window shopping or for recycling batteries.
Useful for killing time while the wife is in the furniture place next
door...
D.
--
Donald MacDonald BA DipLIS
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost.
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