[BBLISA] Data recovery lessons?

[Patrick Paul]

I remember a roommate a few years ago who put a block of one of those 
blue-plastic ice-inside packs on his hard drive, which was on top of his 
tower just sitting there, because it was overheating.  It worked, but 
I'd watch out for leaks.




Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> For that matter, I've had a lot of luck simply powering down the system for
> an hour, and letting the hard drive cool off.
> 
> Power back on, and presto, everything works fine for like an hour before it
> flakes out again, which is usually enough time to ghost or copy everything
> off.

-- 
Patrick Paul
Systems Administrator
BioMicro Center, MIT 68-371
617-452-2951
patpaul at mit.edu