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chasg
Jun 02, 2014Aspirant
how long should I expect "booting" to show? (NV+ V2)
Hi All, I came into my office today to hear a repetitive clicking and intermittent beeping coming from my NV+ V2, and nothing useful (just a series of non-English characters) on the top display, an...
StephenB
Jun 04, 2014Guru - Experienced User
Given the noises and the boot failure, it seems unlikely that someone could get data off of it. But it possibly could be done. You can try connecting it to a PC and writing zeros to it. Seatools and (if I recall correctly) Lifeguard both have advanced tests that do that.
chasg wrote: A second, related question for you: can the data on that failed disk be read?
On backup - you could back up the more critical data (finances for instance). That would be better than no backup at all.
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