29 Dec
2004
29 Dec
'04
10:55 p.m.
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 19:02 -0800, Jim Arnott wrote:
9000 VAX wrote:
I tend to use a pan of icy water on top of the drive rather than the
freezer trick. I'm kind of wary of putting a drive in the freezer where
it can attract moisture...
Sometimes I've had luck the other way too; pre-heating the drive using a
hairdryer.
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:11:06 -0500, Bob Lafleur
<bob_lafleur(a)technologist.com> wrote:
First the caveat... YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY!
Two tricks:
Trick the first: smack it against your palm. Fairly forcefully.
Trick the second: Place it in the freezer for a couple of hours. Is there a repository of information regarding
reviving old hard drives?
Specifically, I have a Seagate ST3390N in a Mac Iici that appeard not to
spin-up anymore. I'm wondering if there are any "tricks" that might get
this
drive running again? It's got my running copy of Opcode Vision on it, and
I've not found any newer MIDI sequencing software that runs on current
systems that I'm more comfortablr with... I'd love to get my Vision running
again!
If the circuit board is defective, you might want to find another
ST3390N and replace the circuit board. Other than that, I have no idea
how a hard drive could be repaired.
vax, 9000
Bonus trick: Data recovery services. If the data is
really valuable.
Cost could easily be in the hundreds of dollars.
Another bonus last-resort trick is to pull the lid on the drive and get
the platters spinning 'by hand' - just don't touch the data surfaces,
and there's no guarantee as to how long the drive will keep going (don't
run the drive open obviously - in fact some drives won't even run up to
speed when open). Copy data off, then chuck the drive. Someone told me
of a drive they ran completely open for a couple of weeks for giggles
before it finally crashed.