[geeks] Deathstar (another drive bites the dust)

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

Thomas Gallaway wrote:
> 
> It smells like the PCB got fried or so. Whenever I plug it in the 
> harddisk starts to search and click really fast and then seem to 
> restart. Over and over.
> 
> Anybody know if I can replace the PCB to get the data off the drive?
> 

I had a similar thing happen with an Excel Store (Chinese IBM copy) drive.
In my case it turned out when the room temperature was over about 65F,
the drive started acting the way you descirbe. 

I was able to get the data off the drive by wraping it in an nonconducting 
antistatic bag PC board up. Then I placed a bag of ice wrapped in wrag
on top of it. 

Geoff.

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