On 21 January 2016 at 12:50, Peter Faraday <pchat...@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
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