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Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

From: KS <lists04(at)fastmail.fm>
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 19:09:12 EST

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/08/08 16:42, KS wrote:

>>
>> I agree 6GB will take time to transfer, but there was no change in the
>> size of the directory where I was dumping. Plus the activity monitor on
>> the G4 was not showing any network transfer. I did wait for about half
>> an hour though.

>
> So the drive light was lit, but nothing was happening?
>

drive light? No light for it on the laptop. But it was spinning and making some noise - regular spinning but a bit noisy. The noise didn't have any clunk or really bad sound to tell that it was already in a bad condition.

/KS

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