Re: Hard drive spinup

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

TEXAS II - AppleWorks <a2mg@aol.comNomail> wrote in message
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> Does anyone have any suggestions for making a hard drive that has been
turned
> off for one week (and transported 600 miles) spin up
> I would appreciate any suggestions. It is an 85 meg external drive with
the
> case the size of an Apple 3.5" disk drive. Thanks.

This may be hard to do in the case, I usually do it with bare drives, but
here goes:
The objective is to budge the platters a bit, so I try to use their mass. I
grasp the drive firmly from above, and give it a pop with my wrist. The idea
is to rotate the drive in the plane of the platters and stop it suddenly,
using the inertia of the platters to move them. This is hard on your wrist,
so have someone strong do it.
-Paul