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Article #3031Re: Does anybody repair Western Digital 'Caviar' hard drives?
From: Hugh Maisey
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 00:00
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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? > >Many thanks for any help, Not worth the bother. Repair cost would be in line with a new one. Can it.... Hugh Maisey =================================== E-Mail: Hugh@bridgeco.demon.co.uk ===================================
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c6a1,4c38b8c62dc4714f X-Google-Attributes: gid10c6a1,public X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,4c38b8c62dc4714f X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public From: Hugh Maisey <Hugh@bridgeco.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Does anybody repair Western Digital 'Caviar' hard drives? Date: 1996/09/01 Message-ID: <o+d0mAAm9dKyEwWt@Bridgeco.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 177864589 distribution: world x-nntp-posting-host: bridgeco.demon.co.uk references: <841586970.1403.0@spherica.demon.co.uk> organization: Bridgecom Ltd. mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.periphs,demon.tech.pc