"James Sweet" wrote in message
news:KkO0e.1408$Go4.35@trnddc05...

That was a fix that worked with very old drives (like 15-20 years old)
that
suffered from "stiction" but this is no longer an issue, these Maxtor
drives
burn out the motor driver chip, no amount of spinning and whacking it
around
will make it spin up.

Drill a hole in the side and blow compressed air in G?

I did see the techs once try to erase a hard drive with a bulk eraser.

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