Re: HD spins & dies

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

"Louis Cornelio" <clairmnt@n2.net> wrote in message
news:clairmnt-0666BC.23130606122002@news-server...
> In article <3df18a4f@news.svn.net>, "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>
> wrote:
>
> > May it rest in peace.  You should be able to pick up another (or a
> > complete
> > quadra) for nothing or next to nothing.
> > -Paul
>
>
> haha yeah I have 5 bigger drives hanging out & faster machines too, even
> G3 upgrades. But she was happy w/ hers so what could I say?  The only
> real issue is she has some recent work on it that she never backed up. I
> told her the drive died of old age.....

It's spinning up, then spinning down?  I believe it's detecting a hardware
problem. Try the freezer trick, then try swapping the circuit board from an
identical drive. If that doesn't work, DriveSavers can recover it. At
enormous expense. The last time I sent one in (CPA wasn't regular about his
backups) it cost $1300. He gladly paid it. You might get by for half that,
his drive sounded like a cement mixer.
-Paul