On Oct 25, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Kyle Koerner wrote:
Anyone care to elaborate on drive-rejuvenation voodoo ;-)?
well, you can get whatever disk repair tools will work on that old of a system, could be it's just really trashed itself, but that is unlikely. Only tool I know of from back then was Norton.
You can put it in a low temp oven to try and dry out the bearing grease; that's really a fix for a different era of desktop drives, the bearing grease would pick up moisture over time, become thick, and the drive motor would not spin it properly. Driving off the moisture could fix the grease. Really not likely for a pb100 drive though.
You can freeze it briefly :) not sure of the mystic voodoo for that one, but you can google for success stories.
You can keep booting from RAM disk :) Could be able to do that and still be abel to run Word 5.1a perhaps.
You could try putting it in SCSI disk mode, hooked to a Apple desktop with SCSI port, and see if you can see the drive from the other computer (which might have better repair tools to try).
You can keep an eye out for small laptop SCSI drives, used. I think you're stuck with Apple-ROMed ones, too.
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