OT: Dead hard drive

[Henrik W Lund]

Paul wrote:

> Henrik W Lund wrote:
>
>> Has anyone got any clue as to what may have happened, and how one can 
>> go about accessing the drive?
>>
> Take the electronics board from a similar drive and use it to run your 
> bad drive.
>
> Does the drive at least spin up?

Yes, the drive spins up perfectly. Sadly, it's quite an old drive, and I 
don't have any other drives like it (it's a 30GB IBM DTLA-307030), so I 
don't have any electronics boards that will fit. Oh well, I can at least 
leave it lying around, just in case. ;-)

-Henrik W Lund