17 Jun
2005
17 Jun
'05
12:22 p.m.
Hi,
it is a REALLY REALLY REALLY bad idea to just power
old removable disk
drives up to see if they will 'just work'
as you discovered, THEY DON'T, and destroy themselves in the process
Yes....
:-(
look at the messages from Tom Jennings about all the
trouble he had
getting his going over the past few months
Hmpf, I forgot. Yes, he had some trouble
with his Nova...
1) you now have a piece of junk
that is most likely unrepairable unless you are VERY lucky and can
clean the heads
Are there any tricks beyond Isopropanol?
2) you've destroyed the disc pack (which may be
difficult to repace) and
I have a few others.... Perhaps the drive has crashed
before. Because
one of the packs is open and the disk has these nice concentric stripes....
Should I take the drive to the scrapyard immediately?
Regards,
Philipp