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In article <MBXaIDA+hjfxEwVq@hmsl-group.co.uk>
           Max@hmsl-group.co.uk "Max D. Wilkinson" writes:

> In article <830301092snz@myth.demon.co.uk>, Mike <zeus@myth.demon.co.uk>
> writes
> >Could it be the infamous 'stiction'? The grease on the internal drive
> >bearings thins and causes the motor to stall. Give it a careful tap on the
> >bearing if you can. You could always try another power lead too.
> NO. Never tap a HD, unless you like the head bouncing on the platter. To
> cure stiction spin/rotate, wrist action as if turning a screw top
> quickly, to turn disk inside case.
> 
> Dose the disk spin up with only the power lead connected, IDE (i assume)
> controllers can hold a disk idle.
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I already said in the original post that the drive was working perfectly.
All that happened was that the PC would not recognise the Conner as D:.
So I took it out and held it in my hand whilst disconnecting the Ide cable.
Rebooted it - it spun up Ok. Turned off PC - reconnected Ide cable, rebooted.
Nothing. Turned off PC - removed Ide cable - rebooted NOW NO SPIN UP.

I believe that a static charge in my hand shorted out something on the
circuit board attached to the drive. Whichever way you cut it I am 80 quid
out of pocket and annoyed.

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