James Newton, webhost wrote:
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> Physical Trauma? Box dropped while you were out?
>
> Power surge, but I would expect the rest of the box to go before the drives.
> Unless the surge was just on the PS leads used by the drives.


I have a "grumpy" friend who had a bad habit of
thumping his PC box whenever windows got slow etc,
which is often.

The hard drive started to fail after some months
and over a few days then lost more and more sectors,
we were lucky to get 80% of his stuff off it before
it was fubar.

Now he doesn't thump it anymore, and grumps at
anyone walking too *heavily* past his desk lest
they might wreck his new one. :o)
-Roman

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