Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 14, 2005 07:16 PM
I do remember one of those<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
I didn't solve the stiction problem by rotating the drive (didn't know about that solution back then), I just opened it and loosened the platters by rotating the spindle by hand.
Once I got some fingerprints on the platters.. slightly panicking, I just cleaned them with glass-cleaner (windex?) and it worked fine until the next time the heads got stuck.
I don't know how long they managed to use the machine after that, but it was end-of-life anyway<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
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Re:sticky drives
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 14, 2005 07:16 PMI didn't solve the stiction problem by rotating the drive (didn't know about that solution back then), I just opened it and loosened the platters by rotating the spindle by hand.
Once I got some fingerprints on the platters.. slightly panicking, I just cleaned them with glass-cleaner (windex?) and it worked fine until the next time the heads got stuck.
I don't know how long they managed to use the machine after that, but it was end-of-life anyway<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
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