[SEL] OT: Im Back

[S. Work]

Before you go opening up the drive mechanish, Try swapping the Small curcuit board on the underside of the drive with one from another (As Near identical drive) as possible.
 
  Without more information EG: Drive Manufacturer, Model# or atleast Size range, I can't give you more specific instructions. But keep this in mind. 95% of the time a Clicking drive is simple a failure in the drive Electronics, Not the drive mechanics.
 
  Transplanting the "Controler" from a working drive Will usually give you atleast READ Access to the data on the drive (From which you can repair small gaps in files (If Any) Using a sector editor (If a Binary File) or using a Text editor for raw ascii files, Like MS-Excel documents , etc.Feel free to contact me Off-List if you need more specific Info
 
  Sincerely,
     Steve Work (Endacomm10 at yahoo.com)
    of Endacomm Computer Services  (EST:1979)

'IN GOD WE TRUST' 


--- On Fri, 3/6/09, Mark Shulaw <frappi at wcoil.com> wrote:


From: Mark Shulaw <frappi at wcoil.com>
Subject: [SEL] OT: Im Back
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Date: Friday, March 6, 2009, 10:05 AM


I am starting to feel like the computer Gods are picking on me. I 
have lost two hard drives and all the data on them in the last two 
months. Both were mechanical failures of the drive, not any virus as 
far as what the repairman says.
The first  drive only lost a weeks worth of data for me. This time I 
lost 2 months of data. I still have the old drive from my old 
computer that I supposedly upgraded from so I was able to at least 
get what I had up till the end of December 2008. But all of my emails 
and documents since then are locked on the dead drive.  One minute it 
was working fine the next minute the computer would just not 
recognize the drive and it was making a clicking noise.
QUESTION, does anyone have the ability to swap the disks from one 
drive to the next? I am told that the companies that does this is way 
expensive. And from looking at the internals of another dead hard 
drive and seeing how they are asembled its definately a project 
beyond my knowledge, skills and tools.      Mark




Mark Shulaw
Bluffton, OH. 45817-9601



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