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cperciva on June 12, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Help, HN. My hard drive failed.

Define "failed". Some files are inaccessible? The disk works for a while but then stops responding? The disk spins up but the OS doesn't recognize it? The disk doesn't spin up?

arnorhs on June 12, 2010 [–]

Failed as in the hard drive can't be booted and can't be plugged in via USB drive.

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