[NBLUG/talk] Reviving a dead hard drive

[Tim Preston]

One of the other lists I am on just went through this...

Freezing, suck out the air in a zip loc bag

Physical shock, along the line of the platters

Spin test, hold the drive in your hand and twist the drive as you power 
up the system.

If the drive spins up, freezing could solve a bad chip problem.
If the drive won't or is slow to spin up (Sticktion), freezing, physical 
shock, spin test can break the platters loose.

pass it on...

Andrew wrote:
> It appears that the hard drive in my sister's iMac has gone
> belly-up. But before I flush it down the toilet, I'd like to try
> to pull some data off of it... if I can manage to temporarily
> resuscitate it. Anybody have any experience breathing a little
> life into dead drives? Any tricks I might try?
> 
> A.
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