eho@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) (03/15/90)
Does anyone out there know where can I go to if I want to repair (and recover data from) a bad 42meg Quantum Q2040 hard drive ? This is a rather old 8-inch drive I'm afraid. I think that some of the bearings are beginning to wear out -- it sounds a lot noiser (and the noise is coarser) than other Q2040's that I've when I power-up the system. This drive used to be on a Xerox D-machine and before it goes south, the system had a bad power-supply (the power-supply didn't just give out but the voltages were not right) so I'm not sure if this would do anything to arms (maybe they got stuck or something) -- the status code, I read when the system powers up now is that it could find the drive or drive not ready when it tried to seek cylinder 0. BTW, does anyone know of any shops that have machines that read raw bits off the platters ? Any pointers appreciated. -- Eric Ho Princeton University eho@clarity.princeton.edu
eho@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) (03/15/90)
Does anyone out there know where can I go to if I want to repair (and recover data from) a bad 42meg Quantum Q2040 hard drive ? This is a rather old 8-inch drive I'm afraid. I think that some of the bearings are beginning to wear out -- it sounds a lot noiser (and the noise is coarser) than other Q2040's that I've when I power-up the system. This drive used to be on a Xerox D-machine and before it goes south, the system had a bad power-supply (the power-supply didn't just give out but the voltages were not right) so I'm not sure if this would do anything to arms (maybe they got stuck or something) -- the status code, I read when the system powers up now is that it couldn't find the drive or drive not ready when it tried to seek cylinder 0. BTW, does anyone know of any shops that have machines that read raw bits off the platters ? Any pointers appreciated. -- Eric Ho Princeton University eho@clarity.princeton.edu
tel@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.e.lowe) (03/15/90)
In article <EHO.90Mar15000944@word.Princeton.EDU> eho@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) writes: >Does anyone out there know where can I go to if I want to repair (and recover >data from) a bad 42meg Quantum Q2040 hard drive ? > >BTW, does anyone know of any shops that have machines that read raw bits off >the platters ? I just sent a 300 Meg drive to a company at the recommendation of someone else who had some work done by them. They had a bad 80 meg drive that needed data recovered from it and they were able to recover 98% of the data. I'd give them a call and see what they can do for you. From what I understand, they will get down to the chip level to repair a drive and recover the data if possible. They may even have the equipment to read directly from the platters. The company is Data Recovery Service, San Francisco, CA 415-585-7448. I spoke to a guy named Donald. Good luck! --Tom Lowe AT&T Bell Labs tel\@cdsdb1.ATT.COM -- Tom Lowe tel@cdsdb1.ATT.COM attmail!tlowe 201-949-0428 AT&T Bell Laboratories, Room 2E-637A Crawfords Corner Road, Holmdel, NJ 07733 (R) UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T (keep them lawyers happy!!)