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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HD will not spin up (sometimes), banging it helps; Suggestions?
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.162334.22945@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 30 Oct 90 16:23:34 GMT
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Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <4677@trantor.harris-atd.com> sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
>In article <0!8%_**@rpi.edu> freewill@pawl.rpi.edu (Jenni L. Lexau) writes:
>>
>>  
>	[DELETIONS]
>>   
>>Opening a drive in a normal office environment WILL kill it, even
>>if it's only open for a few seconds.
>>   
>
>	Has anyone tried this? I know it is
>supposed to be a bad idea, but...
>
>	If you ever opened a drive and then had it function
>satisfactorily afterwards, please tell me. Or, if it was
>kaput afterwards. tell me that, too.
>	Thanks.
>
>

A hard disk drive can ONLY be opened up and worked on in a clean room. The
heads fly so close to the platter that even a smoke particle can wedge between
the head and platter doing irreparable damage to both the head and media.

There are many shops qualified to do disk drive repair. Pick up a copy of the
Computer Shopper.

Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
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