[comp.sys.mac.hardware] Need HD repair info

jlawler@Apple.COM (John Lawler) (12/11/90)

I have some friends who have a dead hard drive on their hands.
It's a 60 MB CMS external, and when they came in one morning
the disk wouldn't spin, although the fan was on, so the power
supply seems OK. They checked out the cable between the power
supply and the disk with a voltmeter and it too seems OK. So,
two questions:
    1) does anyone know what the problem is?
    2) my friends work at Harvard. Where would the
       best place for repairs be in that area?

I would appreciate any help, especially any ways they can get
this thing working again without swapping out the mechanism and
thus lose their data. Thanks in advance.

-John

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