In message , Gene E. Bloch
writes:
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 03:10:04 -0400, Paul wrote:
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What they do, is they make the switch black colored, same
black color as the power cord, and they do that so
nobody will notice :-)

Paul

Don't yuo just love that

I have had drives that had been idle for a long time not spin, but I was
able to start them (more than one drive, over time) by mechanical shock.

Method one: Shake the drive vigorously.

In a rotational manner.

Method two: Tap the drive with the head of a screwdriver or some similar
object.

Method three: Bang the drive against a desktop, preferable with a
silicone potholder or something on the desktop as a shock minimizer.

These are methods of desperation, but you could tell that...

If all else fails, and there's something on the drive you want to
recover but not enough to pay a recovery company (serious money) (or
there's something private or otherwise that you don't trust anyone
with), _and_ you're _not_ going to _use_ the drive again, open it -
ideally in a positive-pressure filtered cupboard (I have access to one).
I did, only to find the heads (possibly only one of them) had stuck to
the surface: I was able to free it (by turning the spindle), and get
most of the data off the drive.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Eddie [Waring] underook elocution lessons in Leeds. After four weeks he was
asked to leave - all members in his class had begun to speak like him.
Stuart Hall, RT 7-13 August 2010