On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 19:25, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> Well it set up for 5 years and it is a 386 box and I seem to recall buying the
> computer in 82 or was it 83 not quite certain there so it must be 20 years or
> so old.
>
> As to freeze up. It starts, spends up, and then starts to read but apparently
> the rear arm does not move because you keep hearing it click.
>
That sounds like an old Seagate drive. Once they got to the point where
the heads made that banging noise, it was pretty much all over unless
you want to spend lots of money on specialized data recovery.
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