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Motor gone in HDD...

  • 01-01-2005 12:04pm
    #1
    Dooom
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    I have an 80gb hard drive here, but the motor's gone in it. It's not too important, but there's still a lot of stuff on it I'd like to get back - if I can. Does anyone know anywhere that will replace a motor in one? I was on to a company over in England a while ago, and they quoted me for £4000 (sterling) to recover it all or something like that. But that seems a bit ridiculous so if anyone has any ideas....

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    Ciaran500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    I doubt anyone but the manufacturer would have the means replace the motor. Your only real hope would be to send it off to a company that will take the disks out and read them for you.


  • #3
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    see if it is still under warranty. Though, they'll probably just replace it rather than repair it. Data recovery is an expensive business.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Motors are built in nowadays - so it would have to be fitted in a clean room.

    Data recovery is done by taking the platters out of the drive in a clean room and reading the data off them directly - they don't repair drives.

    Clean room - means space suits n' stuff, AFAIK in Intel you ex-smokers aren't allowed in their clean rooms unless it's been at least three years since you gave up.

    Roughly 3% of drives die each year, backups are kinda important.


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