Subject: Re: HD in critical condition
From: Jon Reynolds (proteon@gci.net)
Date: Sat Jan 05 2002 - 15:43:21 AKST
Another good trick is to take the drive in both hands with the 40 pins
facing away from you then with a quick motion twist the drive till the
40 pins are facing you. I have done this on a few occasions and it has
worked also beating a HD with a stick might anger the ACLU.
Jon
On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 09:34, Richard Mckinney wrote:
>
> 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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