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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!
> 
> 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?


Don't waste your time or money, throw it away and buy a new one. They're 
too cheap to mend unless they have valuable data on

-- 
leo