[X4U] Hard Drive Recovery Service Needed

[Doug LaBore]

Sounds like your new drive is showing signs of sticksion. This condition
exists when the HD head is laying on the platters and the surfaces are stuck
together. The most popular method of repair is to remove the drive and hit
it on the side (firmly) while its starting up in an effort to free this
sticksion issue. Sounds kind of brutal but it works most of the time.

Doug LaBore
Bloomington Minnesota


On 6/20/08 10:01 AM, "Paul Biddlecomb" <bidlecom at usc.edu> wrote:

> 
> Help!  My hard drive in my G5 iMac just went out.  It's a 500 GB drive
> that's only about 2 months old, but there are hundreds of pictures on
> it that my wife doesn't want to lose.
> 
> The drive does not show up in Disk Utility at all.  I put it in an
> external case to check it, and it does not seem to be spinning up,
> just makes a little noise, sounding like there is not enough power to
> spin it up.  It does seem to make a beeping sound every once in a while.
> 
> 
> Can anyone recommend a recovery firm that I can take or send it to?
> I'm in the Los Angeles, CA area.
> 
> Thanks for any information you can provide.
> Paul