[PLUG] data recovery from broken hard disk drive

[Tony Rick]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Russell Senior
<russell at personaltelco.net>wrote:

> One other random thought: In the very old days, I had a disk (a 20MB
> "HardCard" in an AT&T PC6300, the latter of which was pretty hawt in
> the pre-IBM PC-AT days) with a stiction problem.  To get it to boot up
> after sitting for a while, i had to physically drop the case a couple
> inches onto the disk for the shockwave to break the adhesion.


They support guy that introduced me to the stiction solution would simply
smack the drive moderately on the side with the heal of his hand, a
technique
I've used successfully man times.

- tony