From illovox at comcast.net Sat Apr 9 04:04:38 2005 From: illovox at comcast.net (illovox@comcast.net) Date: Sat Apr 9 04:12:56 2005 Subject: [PB] WTB-Desperately Seeking Spare Bronze "E" Key & Whole Pismo Keyboard In-Reply-To: <20041217142936.015F71E47FF@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: Constructing a Pismo for a friend--made the mistake of buying the main unit off EBay instead of here. Always a mistake...when will I learn? Pluck the "3" key, get a neverending "e". Pluck "e," get nothing. Closer inspection reveals the "E" had been futzed with--a klugey repair at best for a broken key. Pluck the "E" key off my Lombard board to test--break my Lombard "E" key due to 3AM incompetence. But tests did yield results: Pismo keyoard shot at the "E" and "3," no repair possible. So now I need a Psimo Keyboard ASAP as friend leaves for Thailand in days, AND I need to replace the broken "E" key for my poor sacrificial Lombard keyboard. If anywhere near Seattle with the help, pick up likely! Willing to buy or trade. Have much in the way of interesting trades. Whole computers, even laptops, non computer related stuff as well. Yours, Run (206) 760-0462 --- From mlamb at isd.net Mon Apr 11 22:50:39 2005 From: mlamb at isd.net (Michael Lamb) Date: Mon Apr 11 22:50:50 2005 Subject: [PB] PBG4 Hard Drive won't spin Message-ID: Any suggestions on getting a dead drive to spin again just long enough to rescue data? (Symptom before dying: noisy change in RPM for slow to fast to slow, repeating; now it is silent and does not appear on the Desktop.) I read that it is doable to remove the 60GB drive from my Dec 2002 PBG4 1GHz (OS9 bootable) and put it into a FireWire/IDE case (such as http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm? Category=2517&Prod_ID=210&Filler=No#Prod210) but would that help? (In the [process I could perhaps access the innards and give them a little spin to loosen them?) From dhlii at comcast.net Tue Apr 12 00:41:17 2005 From: dhlii at comcast.net (David H. Lynch Jr.) Date: Tue Apr 12 00:41:23 2005 Subject: [PB] PBG4 Hard Drive won't spin In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <425B7B9D.5090201@comcast.net> Michael Lamb wrote: > Any suggestions on getting a dead drive to spin again just long enough > to rescue data? (Symptom before dying: noisy change in RPM for slow to > fast to slow, repeating; now it is silent and does not appear on the > Desktop.) > The Drive recovery companies open the drive in a clean room, and fasten an external motor to the platters to spin them up to the right speed - not a do-it-yourself from home project. From fred at mindstate.com Tue Apr 12 01:06:32 2005 From: fred at mindstate.com (Fred) Date: Tue Apr 12 01:06:44 2005 Subject: [PB] PBG4 Hard Drive won't spin In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Putting into an external case will probably not do much, but worth a try. It sounds as if it needs to go to Drive Savers or some other drive recovery service where they open it the drive casing in a "white-room" or a clean room that is sealed and then spin the drive via connecting to the platters after opening the housing in there. I have had a drive do this in a powerbook before, I tried external cases, etc...but no luck. Heads were locked. I had to sent it off to recover the data...not cheap at all...but still I had to have the data. Whatever you do, do not open the drive yourself. It has to be done in a white-room. And if a drive recovery service does it, it does not void the drive's warranty as they put a seal on it stating that they opened the case and you can usually get the drive replace under warranty too. Good luck. Hope you backed up regularly. Cheers Fred > From: Michael Lamb > Reply-To: "A place to discuss Apple's PowerBook computers." > > Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:50:39 -0500 > To: > Subject: [PB] PBG4 Hard Drive won't spin > > Any suggestions on getting a dead drive to spin again just long enough > to rescue data? (Symptom before dying: noisy change in RPM for slow to > fast to slow, repeating; now it is silent and does not appear on the > Desktop.) > > I read that it is doable to remove the 60GB drive from my Dec 2002 PBG4 > 1GHz (OS9 bootable) and put it into a FireWire/IDE case (such as > http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm? > Category=2517&Prod_ID=210&Filler=No#Prod210) but would that help? (In > the [process I could perhaps access the innards and give them a little > spin to loosen them?) > > _______________________________________________ > PowerBook mailing list > PowerBook@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/powerbook > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by The > MailScanner at TNWEB LLC, http://www.tnweb.com, and is believed to be clean. > > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses at TNWEB LLC] > >