Data Recovery Services

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 05:53:59 CST 2016


On 21 January 2016 at 12:50, Peter Faraday <pchatt30 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Iv had some luck with drives where the head gets suck in the park position.
> If the drive spins up then shuts down it could be this. Bit of an
> agricultural fix but, take the lid off and give the head a slight nudge off
> the centre and get the lid back on quick.  I'm lead to believe this will
> only work with old drives dew to the tolerances in gap of head to platter.
> Big risk with this is crashing the head into the disk but iv used it a few
> time with 100% success. The drives were from early 90s


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiction#Hard_disk_drives

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