That's an intersting method. I have used the physical shock method many times in the past. Start by tapping with your hand and work up to multiple blows with the handle of a large screw driver. It really has worked before.
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Warren Togami wrote: > > -Vince > > I heard somewhere that when hard drives fail to spin up, if you put it > in a freezer for a few hours, take it out and keep it away from air (so > condensation wont form on it), the temperature expansion/contraction is > sometimes enough to "unstick" it to spin up one more time. If you > manage to get it spinning, quickly copy as much data as possible off of > the drive before it dies permanently. Some other guy suggested the same > thing but putting the hard drive into an oven, and using it after it > cooled down. >
