Help with broken/old PC

[Ardesco]

Its a Maxtor, a very cold one at the mo, as it's been in the freezer since yesterday evening.

Fingers crossed eh ?

So has it worked then??

[DaveB]

I once spent a delightfull 8 hours in the server room of a well known investment bank removing drives from IBM PS/2's tapping them with a rubber mallet and putting them back in again.

They'd had a DR excersise and shut everything down. When the IBM's came back up all the disks had stuck cos it had been so long since the last time they were powered down. ( 3 years ). A sharp tap with the mallet freed them up and got them going again.

[Clownio]

So has it worked then??

I'll let you know tomorrow.....

Exciting isn't it ?