on 9/8/03 3:18 PM, Alan Kim at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Tom and Lisa P wrote: > >> I thought hard drive platters were packed under clean room conditions ? > > ------ > > Let me tell ya - when my drive crapped out couple years ago I was ready to > open > it even if I was in the middle of a dust storm. I have perfect hindsight after > that experience. I convinced myself, in desperation, that clean room > conditions > would be only for manufacturing and I may be able to get away with opening it > and maybe make it work again just long enough to get to the data. Actually, I > think some of the Listers have done this. > Mine was still under warranty but would have had to pay a very expensive > 'official' data recovery service for the warranty to be valid afterwards. I > gave up on the data and had the drive replaced. >
With an older, small, hard disk that suffered "stiction", I popped the top off, hooked it to a working drive in a SCSI chain, and, helping it start up with a finger on the side of the platters, I transferred all the data not gone away to the working drive. Then, the little drive was sent to hard disk heaven. The insanely precision disassembly required would send anyone not medicated into paroxysms of twitch-fits after just a few hours of the attempt. Jeff -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
