Subject: Re: HD in critical condition
From: Richard Mckinney (mckinney@gci.net)
Date: Sat Jan 05 2002 - 09:34:12 AKST
It is often the bearings locked up that prevents them from spinning up.
A sharp wrap on the center of the case where the spindle center make
shake it loose. If you can get no response what so ever then throw it
in the freezer for a few hours. The shrinking of the mechanism
sometimes will break it loose enough to spin up and extract data from.
A good backup comes in quite handy at these times.
Rich
Charles Smith wrote:
>
> If the drive isn't spinning, like Josh said, go ahead and hit it with a
> stick. You can't do too much damage to a drive that doesn't work.
> I have seen many servers that run for extended periods of time, E.G. years,
> fail to boot after shutdown. I have seen them promptly boot again after a
> drive across town to the shop. If the drive were spinning I would say let
> the machine run overnight and then attempt a few reboots, a few failed
> drives have rebooted after the drive temp is back up to a normal operating
> temp.
>
> Charles
>
> >After being down for a few days and having a fan replaced, my
> >computer booted up only to tell me that the hard drive was no longer
> >recognised.
>
> >After testing other possibilities, I confirmed it's the hard drive's
> >problem. It won't even spin up. It is getting power, though,
> >because a green light flashes on the logic board. If that's the
> >case, could the electrical path be dropping the +12V power, but not
> >the +5V, somewhere on the board?
>
> >Can anyone suggest what might be done?
> >Thanks.
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