Just last week I fixed an old HD by taking it apart and giving the head a nudge. Beforehand it would not mount - Drive Setup could see the drive, but not the disk inside. Afterwards it worked fine! Bit annoyed I hadn't tried this before on the many drives I've been through... Opening any HD has a risk - there was nothing important on this HD so I didn't have to worry about doing any permanent damage.
-------------------------------------------- On Sat, 3/11/17, Alex Ander <photo...@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Freezing HDD To: "G-Group" <g3-5-list@googlegroups.com> Date: Saturday, March 11, 2017, 6:42 PM The hard drive on my PM 5300 looks like it has failed. Is there any truth that freezing the drive might restore it or is it one of those myths? -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
