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To: j g cordes who wrote (6743)	3/15/1999 8:43:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Your not an idiot but certainly an explicit remark. a more PC answer might be WARNING IF YOU WANT TO SEE YOUR DATA ALIVE AGAIN DON'T OPEN THE COVER.... Sean

To: j g cordes who wrote (6743)	3/15/1999 9:01:00 AM
From: Nemer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Jim -- Late yesterday evening I posed the question of your crashed HD to a competent techie friend. He agreed that, if after several reboots had failed, and the substitution of another HD had made the machine function that placing the crashed unit on the workbench and striking it with force not sufficient to dent the metal or break the plastic would not cause any more damage than had already been done, and indeed could well free up the sticking internal part. If after doing that and reinstallation and retry showed the same problem of failure to boot then there would be nothing to lose from the "careful" removal of the cover and a perusal of the inside mechanical workings. Perhaps, as has been related, that the sleeved axis might be freed up with the judicious application of a few drops of oil..... or some other remedy might be apparent from seeing that a spring had broken or come loose, or the pivot arm had problems .... or whatever. He did stress that this was the court of last hope and that it could well impact the recovery of your now lost data in a detrimental manner. As to Sean's suggestion that you're an idiot if you open the drive, well, I pose the question -- "how are the data retrieve folks going to get at the stuff ?" On a similar subject of HD crashes -- when my daughter brought over the grandkids yesterday she also brought her 486 SX machine she uses for word processing at home. She says no one in the family bugs her to use it because it's so slow ...ggg Anyway, last week, the battery had failed and I had told her where to find it inside the case, to remove it, and to take it to Radio Shack obtain a replacement. That went fine, she installed the new battery and the machine wouldn't boot ..... So, when she got here with it, I turned it on, and sure enough, up came the message "push F1 to go into setup" She had reset the date using CMOS and perhaps, or perhaps not, had gotten out of there properly, but there was NO harddrive installed on either drive C or D. I had no idea what size or anything else about the HD, for there were no information on the outside of the HD case. That's when I called on my techie friend........ gggg He got on the internet and found the cylinder settings, etc and not only did that work, but while I had the machine open, I installed one of those "spare parts" hd I had laying around, so now she has dual hd and a working machine ...... the spare I had was identical to the one inside her machine and I'd no idea what size or anything about it so it was basically worthless. Oh yeah, while I was at it I doubled her memory with some spare parts and upgraded her CPU all the way to 66mz with the installation of a spare chip ....... ggggg it's nice to have a "boneyard" ..... Good luck on your endeavor with yours ..... Nemer