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In article <841586970.1403.0@spherica.demon.co.uk>, Matt
<mrr@spherica.demon.co.uk> 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!
>
>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?
>
Unless you really value your data on the drive, I think it would be
cheaper to throw it away and acquire a new one :-(

You'd probably have to pay 40-50 quid just for someone to look at it -
dearer than a new replacement of the same size or bigger.
-- 
Frank Erskine
Sunderland
http://www.g3wte.demon.co.uk/