Re: OT : emergency - Hard disk failure

["Simon McCaughey" <simonmcc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jonathan for all your help - I have already tried most of those
things, and now I'm off to try the rest!

Simon


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tawn, Jonathan" <jonathan.tawn@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:09 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT : emergency - Hard disk failure


> 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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