>>>>> "Don" == Don Buchholz <[email protected]> writes:
Don> Co-worker asked if I had any recommendations for recovering files Don> from a personal computer hard drive that won't spin up any Don> longer. [...] Do you *really* mean it doesn't spin up, that is, the spindle doesn't turn? Having just dismantled a pile of floppy drives for parts and played with the spindle motors a little, that sounds like a problem that won't affect the data on the platters, which is probably a positive thing from a data recovery perspective. On the floppy drives, the electronics for the spindle motor is completely separate from the data handling electronics. Its sole purpose seems to be to get and keep the disk spinning at the right speed. One other random thought: In the very old days, I had a disk (a 20MB "HardCard" in an AT&T PC6300, the latter of which was pretty hawt in the pre-IBM PC-AT days) with a stiction problem. To get it to boot up after sitting for a while, i had to physically drop the case a couple inches onto the disk for the shockwave to break the adhesion. -- Russell Senior, Secretary [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
