[geeks] Deathstar (another drive bites the dust)

[Thomas Gallaway]

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

>Thomas Gallaway wrote:
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>>It smells like the PCB got fried or so. Whenever I plug it in the 
>>harddisk starts to search and click really fast and then seem to 
>>restart. Over and over.
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>>Anybody know if I can replace the PCB to get the data off the drive?
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>I had a similar thing happen with an Excel Store (Chinese IBM copy) drive.
>In my case it turned out when the room temperature was over about 65F,
>the drive started acting the way you descirbe. 
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>I was able to get the data off the drive by wraping it in an nonconducting 
>antistatic bag PC board up. Then I placed a bag of ice wrapped in wrag
>on top of it. 
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I will try that. Might be a fun sunday project hehe... Thanks