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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/

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
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E-Mail: Hugh@bridgeco.demon.co.uk
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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

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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