[ale] stiction?

[Todd B SanMillan]

On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Michelangelo Grigni wrote:

> Over the long weekend I turned off my machine; now one of
> the drives (a fairly new 5.1G Maxtor IDE) apparently won't
> spin up.  I'm guessing it's stiction, since it seems to
> otherwise have power and attempts to seek.

Try sticking it in the freezer for a while (hour or so?).  I have read of 
people that have had success with this, but have never tried it myself. 


> 
> Any advice on local shops to service this?  I would rather
> recover the data on the disk (I don't want to re-install
> Windows95 yet again).
> 

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Todd SanMillan

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