Back in the last century, the 10 MB (that is right, MB not GB) IBM "fixed disks" that can with a high-end IBM PC XT (oh, those were the days, a 4.77 MHz 16-bit processor and 512K of sloooooooow RAM) would have their bearings seize with no warning. Obviously, no spin = no bits. I had gained a reputation for getting these puppies to spring back to life long enough to disk copy the contents from one HD to another new one. The trick was to peal off the protective foil covering on top of the drive housing (which had DO NOT REMOVE boldly printed on it - what an invitation!) exposing the platter spindle. Then using a high precision, brand new #2 pencil, shove the eraser into the spindle and spin it when the drive was powering up (the correct direction of the rotation was my trade secret). This had about a 95% success rate, but you could only do it one or at best two times. Eventually some crack pot engineer realized that Teflon bearings were superior to nylon and put me out of "business". Oh, the good ol' Halcyon days of the mid 80s when DOS was King and ....
-Tim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Shaffer Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:25 AM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC Sometimes you can put the drive in a freezer for a while, then take it out and it might work for few minutes. Not an urban legend, it actually worked for a friend of mine. Depends on what's wrong with it of course. _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
