I hesitate to confess that I currently use Outlook's Task Manager...
As the intranet I am putting in place is currently a "Low Priority" task - it seems that I will be stuck with this for a while.
It does work despite making me feel like middle management... What happened to the days when I was a lowly Tech and didn't need lists because I could remember EVERYTHING?
Have you checked if the boards are fried on the Drives or if there is actual internal physical damage? If the boards got fried when your power unit blew then it's quite possible that the drives are merely incommunicado... In these situations I have had some success replacing the board with another from an identical drive...
BEWARE - If there is damage to the drive it is quite possible that you will blow the new board... Just so you don't blame me if this goes wrong... Also if you do ever intend to use the services of a data recovery agency, don't try this. If there is some minor damage to the mechanism and you replace the board - it could increase the damage by far.
Technically, physical recovery requires a clean room environment. We had a disk failure in one of our branches recently and for various (infuriating and ludicrous) reasons had no valid backup. We sent the disk off for analysis which alone cost 150 and were told that as the disk had previously been opened by the freelance tech we USED to have on contract for that branch - there was aan almost 0% chance of recovery as dust had got onto the plates.
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I hesitate to confess that I currently use Outlook's Task Manager...
As the intranet I am putting in place is currently a "Low Priority" task - it seems that I will be stuck with this for a while.
It does work despite making me feel like middle management... What happened to the days when I was a lowly Tech and didn't need lists because I could remember EVERYTHING?
Have you checked if the boards are fried on the Drives or if there is actual internal physical damage? If the boards got fried when your power unit blew then it's quite possible that the drives are merely incommunicado...
In these situations I have had some success replacing the board with another from an identical drive...
BEWARE - If there is damage to the drive it is quite possible that you will blow the new board... Just so you don't blame me if this goes wrong... Also if you do ever intend to use the services of a data recovery agency, don't try this. If there is some minor damage to the mechanism and you replace the board - it could increase the damage by far.
Technically, physical recovery requires a clean room environment. We had a disk failure in one of our branches recently and for various (infuriating and ludicrous) reasons had no valid backup. We sent the disk off for analysis which alone cost 150 and were told that as the disk had previously been opened by the freelance tech we USED to have on contract for that branch - there was aan almost 0% chance of recovery as dust had got onto the plates.