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From: MARCELO@idunno.princeton.edu (MARCELO)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Resurecting a dead hard disk(temporarily)
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Date: 12 Jul 90 17:57:11 GMT
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In article <90193.094223JS05STAF@MIAMIU.BITNET> JS05STAF@MIAMIU.BITNET 
(Joe Simpson) writes:
> Recently the 6 month old SONY 40mb drive in my Mac IIcx failed.  It
> would not spin up.
>  
> A friendly hardware guy "drank the drive" and got it so spin up long
> enough let me back up.  The technique is.
>  
> Hold the drive in the hand of choice so that the disk platter is
> parallel to your palm and you palm is 90 degrees to your chest.
>  
> Use a gentle "drinking" motion to move the drive toward your face, 
twisting
> your wrist to  rotate the drive.  Stop the motion abruptly and rotate the
> drive back to the rest position (again not rapidly, just gentely.
>  
> Apparently this sometimes breaks the platter loose and will let you
> back up.  Of course other bad things could happen to, but if you are
> sure that your drive is dead this trick is worth a try.
>  
Another trick (does the exact same thing) is when you power up the Mac 
give it a little "kick" .. By this I mean pick up one end of the Mac a few 
inches and drop it .. That jolt is usually enough to get the HD spinning 
freely again .. 


     .. Marcelo ..

marcelo@pucc.princeton.edu
marcelo@idunno.princeton.edu

.. I didn't do it ..
.. It wasn't me ..
.. Nobody saw me do it ..
.. Nobody can prove a thing ..