"JW" wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:30:26 -0500 "Stellijer"
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Alan Peterman wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:47:02 -0500, "Stellijer"

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Anyone know of any great web sites or discussions boards for reviving
hard
drives which have failed fir data retreival?

Let me mention just ONE of the cases here, just in case in addition to
information, someone here has some adivce:

The first drive is a 40GB Western Digital, 2-1/2 years old. It's been
used a
lot in the past couple years. Last weekend it quit spinning up.

I had another brand of drive freeze up on a client last year. It
turned out
that these drives were notorious for "stiction" problems where the
platters
would not be able to be spun up by the motor. Opening the platter
enclosure
and
manually spinning the platters freed it up so I could run it and
retrieve the
data. While a "clean room" is desire able, if you've got a reasonably
dust
free
environment it's worth a try.


Did your drive "jerk" a little? It seems like the platters CAN spin, at
least a
little bit. They're certainly not stuck SOLID.

Have you tried spinning it in your hand back and forth on the plane of
disk
rotation right after applying power? This method used to work for me, if
it
was a "stiction" problem.


I haven't seen a drive suffer from stiction in probably 10 years, things
have changed since then, platters and heads are much different now.