200 ways to revive a dying hard drive

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200 ways to revive a dying hard drive

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http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6255-5029761-12.html This could be interesting to read for those who know less about copying data from one drive to the other and stuff.

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200 ways to revive a dying hard drive

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I got a friend whos hard drive crapped out on..i'll print this for him. Thanks for the links.

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200 ways to revive a dying hard drive

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Red Squirrel wrote: http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6255-5029761-12.html This could be interesting to read for those who know less about copying data from one drive to the other and stuff.
Good Read, Awesome info for my server as well. (JUST incase my 120gig want's to die any time soon) :biglaugh:

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funny since suddently I feel so paranoid about HDD's failing, so I got a 200Gig for my server so I can use it for data only, and use the 100gig partition of the other drive, to backup stuff from the 200gig. I think I finally figured out the tar command to make it compress, so I can easly fit 200GB of data on the 100GB partition if compressed. Most of my data is text so it compresses well.

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