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From: hasses@prism.cs.orst.edu (Stephen Haase)
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Subject: Re: Data Recovery help!
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Date: 23 May 91 22:57:35 GMT
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On the topic of bad drives, my 3.5" HD drive has been acting up for the last
6 months, steadily getting worse. Basically it will fail to recognize good 
disks, get media errors while copying files to anf from the disks, failed
formatting etc. Well a few days ago, a friends 5.25" on his IBM died, in 
taking it apart, he noticed that there was approximately 2 cubic tons, well
maybe not that much 8-), of dust in the drive, he cleaned it and it worked fine.
I looked in my drive with a light and low and behold I found gobs of it...
absolutely everywhere. I have a IIci, so I popped off the top, unscrewed the
3.5" bracket, yanked out the power supply, yanked out the 3.5 and bracket,
disconnected the drive from the bracket and then took off the metal cover and
guess what I found? An entire herd of dust bunnies...It took about 10 minutes
to actually get the drive out and open and about 20 minutes to get rid of all
the dust inside. But now it works great, it recognizes disksd, copies fine and
is even a bit quieter. I wonder how much they would have charged me at the local
Apple dealer to do the same thing?
Steve
hasses@prism.cs.orst.edu