> > If it's a bearing problem, then that's an entirely different animal. > > Never tried to swap out platters into another frame and see if it would > > work. > > I did that once. > > First, I took apart another bad drive (same manufacturer and similar era > and capacity) to see what all tools might be needed. Then I put all > such tools into a clear plastic trash bag along with the drive of > interest and it's surrogate. I sealed the bag (hoping no other tools > would be needed), gutted the surrogate and transferred the guts of the > drive of interest and put the cover back on. It worked. We got the > data off immediately. But just for grins, I continued to used the > drive, mainly just stuff like burn-in. It continued working like a > champ. SpinRite never found another problem on it. >
Wow. I'm officially impressed. Friend of mine has some music by herself on an old and broken 20GB Maxtor, she really would like to have that music back. I always thought of transplanting the platters but never figured how to keep the work area particle clean. Nice approach. The drive starts spinning, the heads click a few times, that's it. Almost the same sound as the IBM DeathStar emits. BIOS won't see the disc so I guess it could well be the electronics so I'll investigate there first. -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a- C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.stop1984.com http://www.againsttcpa.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
