On 2010-03-24 13:41 , Joseph McAllister wrote:
Turn the drive on and count to one or two. Let the drive fall onto the desktop. (or slam it gently into the desktop if a second try is needed)
years ago (15?) there were Seagate's that had a tendency toward "stiction"; they had a visible axle for the spindle on the outside of the drive, and one way i was able to spin one of these up was to apply the power then take the eraser end of a pencil and apply some torque to the axle
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