Re: Does anybody repair Western Digital 'Caviar' hard drives?

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From: Chris Kennington
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 00:00

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In article <841586970.1403.0@spherica.demon.co.uk>
           mrr@spherica.demon.co.uk "Matt" writes:

" I have inherited a reluctant Caviar 2120 125Mb hard drive, which spins up and 
" down repeatedly until it gives up altogether. It does occasionally boot-up 
" happily and will read and write, but not to any lore that I can see!

    Agree with other posters, it's not worth repairing for use; but
 if you want it going again to extract the data, I can give you the
 address of a no-cure-no-fee wizard.

    Technomatic were remaindering off "small" HDDs fairly cheap.

                                            Chris K.
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Subject: Re: Does anybody repair Western Digital 'Caviar' hard drives?
Date: 1996/09/03
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