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Day: November 17, 2005

Hard Drive Resurrection

November 17, 2005 by Eliot 235 Comments

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Follow along as reader [anonymous Gort] swaps the guts of two hard drives to bring one back from the land of the dead.

Someone at work had a laptop computer they never backed up. They traveled 1000 miles to give a presentation, using the laptop

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