29 Jul
2003
29 Jul
'03
12:26 a.m.
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 21:58, Roger Bisson wrote:
I have an old Quantum Lightning 540 AT hard disk
containing some data I want to retrieve. The drive
itself was removed from a computer some years ago
(about 7 or 8 years), working as far as I remember.
However, now, having tried to install the drive in a
more modern machine to archive the data to CDR, the
drive while recognized by the machine and the drive
itself spinning up and apparently working returns a
"hard disk read failure" error.
Can anybody point me in the direction of any good
information regarding the testing/diagnosis/repair of
head-disk-assembly problems?
I've had some success using the old "place the drive in a sealed plastic
bag and refridgerate for a couple of hours" trick.
No guarantees though!
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