[rescue] HD data recovery recommendations?

Mike Hebel nimitz at nimitzbrood.com
Fri Apr 9 23:08:20 CDT 2004


On Friday, April 9, 2004, at 10:57 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Apr 9, 2004, at 11:58 PM, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>>> I've got a Hitachi (e.g., IBM) 160G IDE drive (formatted UFS+ under 
>>> OS X)
>>> that won't spin up.
>>
>> Have you tried the freezer trick?
>
>   That likely won't help with a drive that won't spin up.

No but the "shaker" trick might.  It's _remotely possible it's a 
sticktion issue even though those are rare these days.

Mike



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