[PB] PBG4 Hard Drive won't spin

[Fred]

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 <mlamb at isd.net>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Apple's PowerBook computers."
> <powerbook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:50:39 -0500
> To: <powerbook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> 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?)
> 
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