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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!

It's believed that a power surge might have damaged it: the switching on of a 
big vacuum cleaner at an adjacent mains outlet to the previous computer it 
was running in, blew the PSU. It was never the same again!

1) Is there anything I could check (got hnd electronics eng.)?
2) Is it economical to send it away somewhere?
3) Does a more relevant newsgroup for this exist?

Many thanks for any help,

Matt.


                                                 Matt Rhys-Roberts
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