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meric on Nov 12, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: "I would dial the 300 baud dial-up number, and scr...

>> I also resurrected a couple of seized hard drives by opening the case and spinning up the platter with my finger.

Cool. So the speed of the spinning does not need to be some constant?

kstenerud on Nov 12, 2011 [–]

You just need to get the drive spinning. The motor will set it to a constant speed, but when the drive has seized, it can't start the platter spinning to begin with.

However, once you open the drive, you have VERY limited time to copy the data off since it's designed to run in clean room conditions (internally).

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