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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