Digital BW, The Print

I have had good luck with external drives that have apparently died by opening up the case and taking out the naked drive.  Yup it's just an internal drive in a case even it was assembled at the factory.  I buy a new case and slip it in.  That has worked for me several times.  

BertGF

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Ben Schneider <benjschneider2@...> wrote:
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> I have had hard drives die because of a voltage increase.  Mechanically they seem fine, but the board which controls them gets smoked.  There is no way of recovering those files without replace the controlling electronics board.
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> I had the power company lose my neutral to the service to my studio.  It smoked five hard drives and a G5 when the voltage went up to 147 volts.  I have power conditioners on all my computers now!  I had surge protectors on everything before, but they do not handle these slow voltage increases.
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