[Leaplist] Screeching hard drive

[Dan Cherry]

On Monday 19 February 2007 05:53:28 am Ram K Siingh wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>
> Is it time to abandon the old screeching hard drive and seek a new new one
> to protect what I have on it? Or is there a grease plug in the hard drive
> to tend to?
>
> Ram

I was successful at eliminating that screeching sound once, with 90 feet of 40 
strand ribbon cable. - remove the drive from it's cage, swap the 90 foot 
cable for the existing cable, being very careful when replacing the end 
connectors.  Then I buried the drive in the back yard, 4 feet deep (but above 
the water table - make proper adjustments for your own yard).  I haven't 
heard a peep out of the drive since ;-)

More seriously, get it backed up as SOON as possible.  Today is not too soon 
if the data is important or not already backed up.  Once it decides to give 
out, you may not get a second chance.

-- 
Dan
Finding a solution to a problem doesn't solve the problem...
Implementing the solution, solves the problem