[geeks] HD data recovery recommendations?

[Andrew Weiss]

On Apr 10, 2004, at 12:41 AM, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 11:13:06PM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:
>> Is this one of the DeathStars?
>
> Yep, Hitachi-badged 160G drive.  I thought the only Deathstars were the
> 40G versions though?  I've got a 60G IBM-badged in this Mac that's been
> flawless.
>
I thought the DeathStar was officially the 75GXP from Hungary.

> Basic problem: after being FedExed to another group of people that 
> work with
> my friend, this drive won't spin up.  I think they tried to use a 19V 
> power
> supply with its external FireWire enclosure instead of the 12V that 
> came with
> it.  Before I sent the drive to them, I was able to take it out of the
> enclosure and use it (directly, on the IDE chain) in my PowerMac G4 
> just fine.
> When they got it, "it wont spin up".  Then, when they FedExed it 
> *back* to me,
> they didnt screw it into the enclosure - so it was bouncing around 
> inside its
> Firewire case.. it got here, and sure enough, won't spin up.
>
That's odd... I had a drive that was toasted inside firewire 
enclosure... the board had a charred hole in it and apparently had let 
out magic smoke.  I replaced the drive for the customer... then popped 
the disk out of the enclosure... the disk was fine and is now happily 
in my Pismo.  (60 GB of goodness).

Andrew