Re: Repairing Maxtor hard drive - possible to DIY?
- From: meow2222@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 27 Mar 2007 15:25:32 -0700
On 26 Mar, 15:08, GS <G...@xxxxxx> wrote:
I have a pile of old drives from some P3's I have just retired, and am
going through them one by one to make sure there is no data on them I
need before I reformat them and give them away or use them to back
images etc. up to. I bought one of those inexpensive external drive bays
that hook up via USB as its a lot easier than constantly replacing
drives and rebooting, and it works quite well.
I have 2 Maxtor Drives, one 20GB and one 40GB - both of them make that
dreaded "clunking" sound when powered up, but after that it does sound
like they start to spin, but I'm not 100% sure. Anyway, the laptop I am
using to read them will not see these disks, not even in the disk
management module. I was wondering if its possible that there could be
something obvious I could see if I popped the cover off. I've got the
external drive bay taken apart so that the drive is just sitting on the
table, so it is in plain view when I power it up. Can the disk be run
with the cover off?
I have some photo's that I can't find that may be on one of these disks,
but there is nothing on them critical enough that I'd pay money to get
them recovered, so I really have nothing to lose, and I am curious about
taking them apart. Is there anything obvious to look for with the cover
off the drive?
thanks!
Youre having a problem with the controller, which is the uncovered
pcb. The sealed up bit is the drive machanics, which
a) arent the problem
b) wont survive long once opened, as the average piece of house dust
will cause a head crash.
NT
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