[clug] Drive failure

[Paul Wayper]

At 10:29 PM 29/04/2005, you wrote:
>Fujitsu hey? I've had several Fujitsu HDDs fail on me. Perhaps not a 
>coincidence.

Hmmm - I've just had a Fujitsu 2.5" drive fail on me, but that was because 
it slipped from my grasp and dropped one metre to hit concrete.  Next drive 
I get I'm wrapping the case in closed cell foam.

I opened the drive up (thinking what the hey, it can't make it not work any 
worse) and found the head stuck to the platter.  I forced it off so it's 
now swinging freely but I think the head is now permanently damaged.  It 
spins up now (it used to just click at me) but nothing happens and it 
doesn't register as a drive on USB.

Oh well, time to start grovelling through my file collection finding my 
backups...

Have fun,

Paul

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