Related to the unrecoverable drive.
Excerpt: Spore user Michael Brodesky wanted me to pass along the thought that if you lost content during the recent crash, you should check the Internet Archive, in particular the Wayback Machine. I can't really figure out what it chooses to...
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Tracked: May 31, 2003 10:26 AM
R.I.P. Fujitsu MPG 40GiB:2001-2003
Excerpt: Bad news, people. Todd heard back from the new data recovery place, and they said that even after replacing the heads in the drive, the media in the drive was too thrashed for recovery. I don't know how much of...
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Tracked: May 31, 2003 10:34 AM
Um, yeah, so about that drive recovery thing
Excerpt: It appears that our poor little undead hard drive is experiencing an odyssey of discovery and exploration. Todd originally chose a recovery service due to their claimed expertise with our drive's particular problem and because they were only in San...
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Tracked: May 31, 2003 10:36 AM
Dead, dead drive
Excerpt: The dead hard drive is still up in Vancouver. Todd chose a company located in San Jose to do the recovery, because they have experience with Fujitsu drives that died in the particular manner in which ours did, which was...
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Tracked: May 31, 2003 10:38 AM
Dead drive update
Excerpt: I talked to Todd today, and he said that the drive had been shipped from San Jose to the company's actual recovery lab, up in Vancouver. So it'll be a few more days yet before we get the recovered drive...
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Tracked: May 31, 2003 10:39 AM
The drive is off to be recovered
Excerpt: Here's a quote from Todd Courtois's recent e-mail detailing the progress of the recovery process: "Yesterday I purchased a new 120GB drive and shipped it along with the dead drive to 1stDataRecovery in SJ. "They've worked on this exact same...
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Tracked: May 31, 2003 10:41 AM
More on the dead drive
Excerpt: Apparently, a large set of Fujitsu drives, to which our poor dead drive belongs, have a known manufacturing fault that causes them to start behaving erratically after a certain period of time. Hardware recovery it is — and as I've...
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Tracked: May 31, 2003 10:43 AM
Dead drive recovery has begun
Excerpt: Today, Todd (owner of rawthought.com, temporarily MIA) and I dropped by sharon.net to pick up the drive that died. It's a 40GiB Fujitsu drive, less than two years old, and it's been kept in a reasonably cool, shock-free working environment...
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Tracked: May 31, 2003 10:45 AM