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On 12/06/2014 7:09 p.m., criggie wrote:
>Thanks for the replies, the phrase "preaching to the converted" comes to
>mind...along with thoughts of reincarnation of conversions and ones own
>preachings....!!! I'll not bore the list with the series of partially
>valid excuses.... Suffice to say its not a total loss, yet its still of
>enough nuisance to warrant the three figure expenditure.... and no its
>not a myth recording disc, however I know there will be listers in this
>boat sooner or later who could be the meat in the sandwich getting some
>serious pressure to fix similar....with WAF possibly the source of the
>torque on the rack...!!!
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Speaking of torque, I read an interesting article about frame distortion in HDDs, causing head crashes <BR>
& the clicks-of-death. One of the methods discussed prior to physical repair, was to back off the <BR>
cover-screws a quarter turn and then re-torque them with a "torquemaster" screwdriver. Apparently<BR>
this fixed a number of the drives right there!<BR>
The article then went on to discuss swapping the platters to a known good drive of an identical <BR>
model type.
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