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To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (9912)	12/9/1998 9:17:00 PM
From: Stoctrash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44573

Pat, I have one wild ass story, ..a true story. A few days ago I had a network server problem, a drive crash during a backup. Now I had most of my critical/important data already backed around waiting for this guy or that to gimme a price on upgrading my up, but not all the network settings and config files(stupid me), so it wasn't a total loss... but not fun. Anyway...I've been dicking server and software, during this I've taken the drive to THREE computer people...nobody could get it spin so getting any data off it would mean sending it to the disk doctors and forking over ~ $1K so they could "maybe" get the data back. Today ole dad was at a meeting and one thing led to another when he was talking to one of his buddies. He comes home with another computer guy to call. I thinking...yeah right just another computer dude that knows 1/2 of what I do. I call the guy and tell him the story, he says "did you give it the drop test?" "DROP test?" I say. "Yes, Drop it flat about 8 - 10" onto a hard flat surface and try it again" I thought he was shittin me, but he said he's had several of these and he's batting ~ .500 with the drop test when all else fails. Guess what...3 drops and ZING, BINGO, WHIZZZZZZ...the damn thing booted and ran all after noon!!! I copied the rest of my stuff off it to some of the workstations and I'm heading back to the office right now to see if its still going. Moral of the story: "No matter what it is...a good swift wack, poke, drop or kick just might fix it" I still can't believe it....!!!!! BTW...it was a Segate drive, 3+ years old. ------ BTW2..my market stuff is still mixed. Prices are holding but the internals continue to slide. Something will have to give soon. A big swift 5%+ or - move is coming, IMO. Pstops are mixed with the various sector indexes but still long the SPX and NDX.