This is a situation that every tech support person has faced or will face at least once:
a failed hard drive.
In this particular case, a user was getting errors like "disk 0 error" and "invalid drive specification." Here were the other facts in the case:
. The data wasn't backed up.
. The problem came out of nowhere.
. The user had accessed Setup and tried to manually enter the settings for the drive type when
"Auto" didn't work.
. There was no startup disk made by this machine.
Reviving a drive like that one-even if only long enough to copy its data before you throw
a failed hard drive.
In this particular case, a user was getting errors like "disk 0 error" and "invalid drive specification." Here were the other facts in the case:
. The data wasn't backed up.
. The problem came out of nowhere.
. The user had accessed Setup and tried to manually enter the settings for the drive type when
"Auto" didn't work.
. There was no startup disk made by this machine.
Reviving a drive like that one-even if only long enough to copy its data before you throw
