[mythtv-users] [OT] Dead hard drive - no partition table.

[Michael Watson]

On 3/06/2013 6:02 PM, Diego Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote:
> El 01/06/13 11:49, Nick Rout escribió:
>> Not even sure the platters are moving.
>>
>
> That's easy to check. Turn off the disk and hold it horizontally with 
> your hand. Move it back and forth around the three axis. Now turn it 
> on and move it (carefully) again. Does it feel different? If so, it's 
> because the platters are spinning, and so it behaves like a gyroscope.
>
> Good luck.
Better to use the old mechanics "stethoscope" trick.  Get a screwdriver 
(or better still, a piece of wooden broom handle, a hammer handle), hold 
one end against the spinning drive, and the other against your ear, you 
should be able to hear the platter spinning..