I have a suggestion since recently I had my own heart stopping
experience. My backup was 6 months old and my hard drive was not being
detected. Since the drive was spinning, I concluded that the circuitry
had gone bad. Planning to swap boards with another drive, I removed the
circuit board to inspect it. Not ready with another board, I put the
original one back. Presto! Tried the drive one more time and it came up.

First job was to run a full backup, but now it is working fine. Have
your friend check this out first. He may be fortunate as I was. It won't
hurt to try.

Peter
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Peter Shkabara - Computer Science Instructor
Columbia College - 11600 Columbia College Drive - Sonora, CA 95370
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-----Original Message-----
A colleague and dear friend has experienced our worst nightmare:  fatal
hard drive crash.  While we will bite our tongues to keep from uttering,
"You didn't have ANY backups!," I am searching for experts in the data
recovery business in the event there is any hope that his (literally)
thousands of hours of work can be salvaged.

Ed Nottingham

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