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Wayne Tiffany
 
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Are you sure it's spinning? I have seen it more than once where a drive
doesn't actually spin up. If that's the case, sometimes you can get it to
start by rapping on it as you turn on the power. You can also try the quick
twist as another method. If either method works, get what you want
immediately as there is no future guarantee.

I've also heard about putting it in the freezer for a time and then pulling
it out, hooking it up, and booting then. Personally I would be concerned
about moisture condensing on the discs, but I've never tried that one.

WT

"NSM" wrote in message news:Vlg6d.111$Du2.54@edtnps89...

"Jim Bancroft" wrote in message
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| I have a 13 GB Western Digital IDE hard drive, manufactured in 2000.

Last
| week I noticed a clicking sound when starting up the PC, and it turns

out
| it's the hard drive, which is still recognized by the motherboard (most

of
| the time), but isn't bootable....the drive clicks, I hear it spinning,
then
| about 20 seconds later it clicks again and spins once more ( by that I
mean
| the rapid clicka-clicka-clicka of a healthy drive), almost like it's a

car
| trying to warm up. It never boots however.

My guess is that it is constantly resetting the head to track zero to try

to
find data. It could be the controller that is bad so if you could find an
identical drive you could swap the boards. Other than that there are
services that do this but for big bucks I believe.

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