This is not an exact science but I would say take the hard drive out
and drop it from about a foot high on a hard surface. This usually
work if the heads that read the hard is stuck somehow. The idea is
that by dropping it, they can become unstuck.
I have tried this techniques successfully in the past.
Good luck
Firm.
On Jan 13, 2009, at 10:21 PM, "Richard Wiggins" <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> My wife's home computer, a very kewl as of 2001 Gateway desktop-and-
> monitor PC, died today. The hard drive is able to begin to boot
> Windows XP -- you see the logo -- so that implies that some data is
> loading from the disk. However you hear lots of seeking noises, and
> ultimately no finding.
>
> We probably don't have much data to salvage on it. I find that in a
> cloud computing world, I've Gmailed just about anything of
> importance to her or to whaterver person I'm working with.
>
> Still, I would like to take one last look at the hard drive. So my
> question is, and I'm not kidding -- how hard do I hit it? Do I pick
> up the unit and drop it? Do I take a rubber mallet to it? Do I
> gently tap it as it tries to boot?
>
> Reminds me of a wisecrack circa 1979 -- on a clear disk, you can
> seek forever.
>
> Thanks,
>
> /rich
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