Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3138 mails)

[Brad Bourn <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 11:04 am, Don Parris wrote:
> Didn't Brad say the drive was dying?  Can hard drives be brought back to
> life? I mean, why worry much about a drive that should wind up in the bin
> to begin with?  If it can be refurbished, just tell 'em to make sure it
> gets donated to a small non-profit org down in Charlotte - we'll see if we
> can dissect it to cough up your data, aand  lay l theories  to rest.  At
> the rate I'm going with LAN Admin, I should crack that drive by AD 3004. :)

heheheh

Yes, the drive is dying.  I have in the past been able to bring dead drives 
back to life for customers if I have a duplicate drive.  Sometimes you can 
swap controller from one drive to another to at least be able to recover data 
to new drive.

In any case, the drive I have seems to have some bearing platter problems.  If 
it spins up and I don't move the laptop, it will say spinning(If it spun up 
at all)  If I move the laptop at all it will start making noise like an 
electric shaver (or yetti from the AOL commercial, heh).  And if you leave it 
powered off long enough for it to cool, won't spin up at all.

Definitely a chance for a tech to "check it out" if curiosity kills the cat.


No matter, as I have successfully ran the Darik's Boot and Nuke twice.  I'm 
satisfied with that.


B-)