For those of us who have missed the firefart lately it is because he has a dire situation with his desktop’s hard drive. A fella he knows who does comp work will be having a go at it. fs says there is 20 years of material that he can’t access including passwords to places he goes. He is in a state over it. I will be talking to his tech when he gets over there later in the morning.
My suggestions are to see if the hard drive motor is getting juice to turn or perhaps the motor itself is seized. He might check that and if it is the motor to try and remove the disc portion and set it in another hard drive that will spin and allow copying of the contents. Maybe a motor can be swapped in ?
For those of us who have missed the firefart lately it is because he has a dire situation with his desktop’s hard drive. A fella he knows who does comp work will be having a go at it. fs says there is 20 years of material that he can’t access including passwords to places he goes. He is in a state over it. I will be talking to his tech when he gets over there later in the morning.
My suggestions are to see if the hard drive motor is getting juice to turn or perhaps the motor itself is seized. He might check that and if it is the motor to try and remove the disc portion and set it in another hard drive that will spin and allow copying of the contents. Maybe a motor can be swapped in ?
Anyone have any ideas ?