Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!dba+ From: dba+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: repairing/replacing failed hard drive? Message-ID: Date: 31 Aug 89 20:16:04 GMT Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 18 A friend's hard drive (Jasmine 20) has gone through a pattern of failure that will sound familiar to those following the recent thread on hard disk failures: it spins, but doesn't boot up. It did this intermittently for several months, and then failed completely. A local repair shop says the only way to fix it is to replace the drive itself: $400. They've said that the power supply and controller electronics are just fine. The old drive is a standard 20meg Seagate drive -- so my question is, can we just go out and buy a new 20meg Seagate drive and plug it in? I see these drives advertised in PC magazines for about $220-240 -- why should this cost $400? (Obviously at that price, she'll just buy a new drive, a la Chuq.) What is everyone else doing with their broken disk drives? --david dba+@andrew.cmu.edu