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Oh snap. Yeah, wouldn't surprise me.
Jeremy Falcon
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Oh, you probably know this, but if you do have to transfer the platters to another drive... keep them far, far, far away from magnets during the process. And don't let the oil on your fingers get on them.
Jeremy Falcon
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There should have been a backup.
"Hope" isn't a viable long term strategy.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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"Hope" isn't a viable long term strategy.
Rats!
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: "Hope" isn't a viable long term strategy.
hmmm....I hope I outlive that a**hole across the street so I can dance on his grave.
So you are saying I am wasting my time?
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I'm saying next time you should make a backup.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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As others have said, if the drive isn't being seen at all by the host PC, it's unlikely any software will be able to offer much of a solution.
A data recovery service might move its platters to a drive with an identical board. How valuable is that data to you?
I'm not even going to mention backups at this time. I know the feeling, and it's not a good one.
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When my Seagate recently failed to be seen by my PC, I pulled it out of computer attached to a SATA to USB cable, put on it top of a freeze pack from fridge and fired it up. It was heat problem with controller. I was able to pull all the data off to another external drive. Replaced it (grrr with a spare seagate drive copied data back and done. Yes, I hope I have better luck with my spare seagate (Barricuda). This is second time I have saved a drive using a freeze pack.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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React
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When my Seagate recently failed to be seen by my PC, I pulled it out of computer attached to a SATA to USB cable, put on it top of a freeze pack from fridge and fired it up. It was heat problem with controller. I was able to pull all the data off to another external drive. Replaced it (grrr with a spare seagate drive copied data back and done. Yes, I hope I have better luck with my spare seagate (Barricuda). This is second time I have saved a drive using a freeze pack.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I have recovered data from a drive which had an obviously blown component on its control board, by replacing such board with one from an identical (near enough) drive sourced from Ebay. Less hassle than transplanting the platters (which I have never done). But if it truly is only 5GB it will be very old and almost certainly unavailable.
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mngerhold wrote: and almost certainly unavailable.
But still could be. I found some 5 GB hard drives and even a 21 MB hard drive with just a quick search.
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yes, there are a few - but it has to be the same model.
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Same model is certainly ideal but not necessarily required. There is another poster in this chain that noted they used a similar version.
But of course trying to find one that matches close enough without the technical expertise (and no docs) would make it difficult.
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Barbecue!
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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People need to wake up. We've had more explosions and fires on farms in the past two years than in our entire lifetime. Any rational person would think either A: farmers are all masochists now or B: something else is going on. Connect the dots.
Jeremy Falcon
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The farmers are running meth labs to make ends meat?
(typo intentional)
Insurance fraud to cash out of losing business? Sell for 50% recovery or destroy for 100% recovery?
That has to be one heck of an explosion to do that much damage. What is the square footage to hold 18,000 cows plus feed stations, milking equipment, etc?
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englebart wrote: What is the square footage to hold 18,000 cows plus feed stations, milking equipment, etc?
The latest thing in farming - the high-rise cowshed?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Horrendously small. Whistleblowers that have attempted to bring light to the atrocious conditions have been murdered, no joke.
This explosion, if I heard correctly, was probably caused by the methane in a confined space, either from the cows themselves or from the waste collection, I don't know.
Presumably a spark from some machinery set it off. I doubt it was anyone smoking, since I think only one person was injured, and they survived. If I recall correctly that is. I read about it yesterday.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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you recall correctly.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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honey the codewitch wrote: Horrendously small. Whistleblowers that have attempted to bring light to the atrocious conditions have been murdered, no joke. We have to accept that either farmers are stupid and cow the population has increased dramatically in the past two years to make cow farts a bigger issue now, or that something else is going on. Cows have been farting for a while now. All these explosions are new. There is more than meets the eye going on, just from a sheer logical perspective.
As a side note, chickens are treated worse. I'm not a vegetarian by any means, but gluttony is a sin the west has been guilty of for a while now. Myself included. So while I do not think cow farts are the next atomic bomb the foolish media portrays, we most certainly should treat the animals better that we noms on.
Jeremy Falcon
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If I had to guess, there's probably more cows packed into less space than there was in previous decades.
If that's the trend, and if it continues, the methane thing will certainly be a problem.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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honey the codewitch wrote: If I had to guess, there's probably more cows packed into less space than there was in previous decades. Guess again.
World Cattle Inventory By Year - Beef2Live | Eat Beef * Live Better
While cow population doesn't necessarily mean they weren't stuffed into smaller spaces, at least least a better metric to go on than the fake news or a guess. There's zero logical reason to do that without more cows existing, especially during the economic slowdown we've had in the past few years.
To reiterate; it's not cow farts. Most people are too scared to learn the truth. I only avoid flat-out saying what it is because it's the lounge. But to assume cow farts from being packed like sardines is to also assume farmers are stupid and couldn't figure out farts are bad after the first few explosions.
Jeremy Falcon
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So certainly then presumably a conspiracy theory must thus follow.
lol - just looked it up ... more click bait stupidity.
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Stop stalking me. I've already asked you. At this point, you're just showing the world you're a stalker with nothing better to do.
Jeremy Falcon
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