[olug] hdd problems

[ned mcnally]

I'll double check, but I don't think the drive was spinning at all

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Eric Lusk <wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> If the drive itself is spinning, then probably a circuitry issue.  If
> you've got time and some money to spend, you can sometimes swap out the
> circuit board on a drive for the same board and get data off of it, but
> after a crash like that, I wouldn't use it for anything.
>
>
> I ran the Harry Potter books through a spell checker; none of those spells
> should work.
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: ned mcnally <ned.mcnally at gmail.com>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 7:22 PM
> Subject: [olug] hdd problems
>
> A friend gave me a desktop hdd and he said he thought there was a head
> crash, but I thought that if that was the problem, powering the drive would
> make sounds.
> I put it in a desktop and booted to an ubuntu live cd, but the drive
> wasn't accessible, didn't make any noise, and didn't vibrate.
> What else could be the problem? the on board circuitry is dead?
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