Does the drive even try to start? It could be suffering from 'stiction'
- Conner drives used to have this problem - do a search for it. Usually
when the drive warms up it 'unsticks' itself and spins up.
Otherwise, in PCUser in the last year sometime there was a reader letter
recommending a guy in Melbourne who did HD recovery - he apparently does
a very good job and his prices were _way_ below what a normal recovery
business would charge. I can have a quick look through my mags if you like.
Dave
The drive refuses to even spin the platter - its basically dead, with
no noise and no vibration etc. No mistaking this as tried a working
identical model from the clients computer and when it was powered up
and idle - the platter motor was quite audible
Have checked on the drive PCB at various places and the +5 and +12 can
be found in a few areas away from the 4 pin power connector so power
seems to be getting to the circuitry.
After a quick web search and a few phone calls finding wildly varying
(and mostly ridiculous) prices - found a firm in vic who would do it
for $550 if electronic only - but would be $850 if it also needed
clean room work on the internal mechanical guts.
Everyone was happy with this, and the drive has been sent to them.
Will post back the results if anyone is interested when the drive
comes back.
. The client has to have the data recovered however.
