RE: OT : emergency - Hard disk failure

["Tawn, Jonathan" <jonathan.tawn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the board could well fit, however with the parameters of the drive
being different (cyl / heads / sectors) I doubt it'd work.

You could also try putting the drive in an anti-static bag, pop that into a
sandwich bag and then put it in the freezer for a few hours to chill, after
around 4-5 hours, take the drive out of the freezer, and then pop the drive
back in the machine.

If the machine your plugging your drive into has loads of stuff in it
(cd-rom, cd-rw, dvd, couple of hd's, floppy etc) disconnect those devices
so
the power supply has more 'umph' to spin the disc up if the bearings are
stuck.

If after all that fails, with the machine switched on and only the board,
h/d and the h/d you intend to write the data to (or a fdd or cd-rw) turn
the
pc on, set a 'pause' in the bios (not all machines allow this, but was an
option to allow slow hd's time to spin up before detection) and with the
machine at the bios screen, firmly tap the hard disc which should cause it
to spin up.

The above is what I've used in the past to help get a disc to spin up so
you
can recover the data, but this has mostly been used with server hd's that
once the server has been shut down the drive refuses to spin up again.

Hope this helps! & good luck- although I take no responsibility etc
etc..

Jonathan.

Jonathan Tawn


-----Original Message-----
From:	Simon McCaughey [mailto:simonmcc@xxxxxxx]
Sent:	Friday, 26 March, 2004 09:52
To:	ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject:	Re: [ukha_d] OT : emergency - Hard disk
failure



> Simon> is it a laptop or desktop HD ?
>
>

It is a desktop, 3.5 IDE Western Digital Caviar (WD200), 20
gig. Is the
board different for a 10Gb drive? I have one of those
available

Simon



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