Back in the day we where running a very nice Lotus Domino Server for a small organisation. We needed a machine to handle a complex domain setup + routing, and i donated as a temporary measure my old workstation, as i didn´t want to mess with the actual server. 3-4 years later the "temporary measure" was still in place, but the machine didn´t boot up after a power outage. Long story short, the disk drive was frozen, as it was a small consumer HDD (2 GB?) and didn´t like to be operational for such a long time.
A very very oldschool sys admin helped out by opened up the poor machine, opened the HDD and then powered up the machine, given the disk a good spin at the right moment. The disk came back to life and so did the server, and we agreed to replace the machine with a new, proper server ASAP. As i left the organisation 2 years later the machine was still operational, the disk still spinning (ZERO defects!) and the disk was still open inside the case - running non-stop-no-problemo for 2+ years!
I also miss Lotus Notes - it was an amazing concept in many regards that got murdered by IBM.
And in case you ask: the machine was running Windows NT 4 Server.
A very very oldschool sys admin helped out by opened up the poor machine, opened the HDD and then powered up the machine, given the disk a good spin at the right moment. The disk came back to life and so did the server, and we agreed to replace the machine with a new, proper server ASAP. As i left the organisation 2 years later the machine was still operational, the disk still spinning (ZERO defects!) and the disk was still open inside the case - running non-stop-no-problemo for 2+ years!
I also miss Lotus Notes - it was an amazing concept in many regards that got murdered by IBM.
And in case you ask: the machine was running Windows NT 4 Server.