Nil desperandum, Donald!
In my case it was a dicky main drive. I took the PC into my then-local
"back-street" PC place, they ran a bit-copy from old drive to a new
replacement, gave me back essentially the same computer with a spare hard
disk (the dicky one) which had a few bad sectors.
My suggestion is not to go to PC-world, but to find a local PC specialist,
and if that doesn't work, there are for sure UK specialists who can help,
look in the back pages of Personal Computer World.
Except if yours is the same case as with a friend, who was persuaded to have
dual hard-disks, one a mirror of the other, in the vain hope that it would
provide automatic backup. It didn't, it couldn't, it just mirrored the
corruption on one disk onto the other. "Just as it says on the tin".
Big USB drives are getting ever cheaper - 50 quid should be easy to spend.
--
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Donald
Sent: 12 October 2007 13:59
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] [OT] Green? I'll say...
All this talk of green...
I just had a hard drive refuse to mount, all I'm getting is continuous
clicking as it attempts to spin up. Of course, this is the data drive of my
secondary computer, upstairs. And everything is backed up. Eh....
Except two shoots done when I was having 'issues' with the main machine,
that is.
Anyone in the UK know any services that could save me?
Sheepishly,
D.
--
Donald MacDonald BA DipLIS
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost.
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