[mythtv-users] Lost my OS hard drive

Ian Clark mrrooster at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 14:40:03 UTC 2009


2009/9/14 Brian Wood <beww at beww.org>

> On Monday 14 September 2009 12:16:48 James Crow wrote:
> > Brian Wood wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Sounds like you have tried all the usual methods and come up empty.
>
> I hadn't heard the freezer trick, I have heard of "gently" tapping on the
> drive case, but I never put much stock in that.
>
> That's a trick from the 'old days', I remember we used to use it at my
school occasionally, the computer rooms was powered up most of the day then
shut off at night, occasionally one of the drives would refuse to spin up
and a gentle tap with the (rubberised) handle of a screwdriver would fix it.
This was in the mid 90s though, I imagine modern lubricants don't suffer the
same issues (The lubricant would clump at the ends of the spindles over
time, then the slight viscosity increase when it cooled was enough to
overcome the inital startup force.)

However, that was a trick to spin up a drive that wouldn't, clicking sounds
more permanent. :(

You're best bet is probably a specialised data recovery firm, as the HDs
contents are probably OK it might not be toooo expensive.

Cheers,

Ian
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