[plug] dd'ing Windows disks

[William Kenworthy]

Did you pull the (mains) power cable for a few minutes?  Most MB's keep
power on part of the baord even when supposedly off these days ...

BillK

On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 09:54, Derek Fountain wrote:
> I had a heart stopping moment yesterday when the 120GB disk in my Windows box 
> locked up. I initially thought it was dead, unresponsive as it was to a power 
> cycle, but I found that disconnecting it from the IDE bus, then reconnecting 
> it made it happy again.
> 
> First question: anyone seen that before or know what might be going on?
> 


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