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Rob Beard wrote: > William Fidell wrote: >> Ok so someone I work with has managed to kill a harddrive, not spinning >> up properly and now completely inaccessible. Its a IBM deathstar (i know). >> >> Anyhoo, anyone have ideas about recovering the data? Cheaply! >> >> Wills >> > What model is it? > > There was a trick I did with a Deathstar to get it spinning. I had the > drive powered up (without data cable) and held the drive in my hand > (with my fingers and thumb around the drive so it was flat and my palm > was touching the top of the drive. I then did a quick twist of my hand > a couple of times. This released the mechinism and got the thing to > spin up. I can't say it works every time but it might be worth a try. > > Someone else once suggested putting the drive in the freezer for an hour > although I haven't personally got it to work. > > Is the drive detected at all? > > Must be the season for hard drives failing. I've just installed a brand > new Seagate 250GB drive into a PC for someone and it has failed. It's > less than a week old!!! > > Rob Not sure of the model, "old" was the information I was given. The drive was not detected and makes the constant click of death. But anyway, thanks all for the suggestions. We will give them all a go, starting at the least destructive and progressing. My favourite suggestion, off list, is it use a drill to get it spinning. Or a sharp "tap" against a table edge. Maybe we can hang it from the ceiling by the power cord hitting it with sticks until it starts up, like a christmas pinata Wills -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html