Quantum Lightning 540 AT Hard Disk

From: Roger Bisson <roger161uk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue Jul 29 07:02:01 2003

I have an old Quantum Lightning 540 AT hard disk
containing some data I want to retrieve. The drive
itself was removed from a computer some years ago
(about 7 or 8 years), working as far as I remember.

However, now, having tried to install the drive in a
more modern machine to archive the data to CDR, the
drive while recognized by the machine and the drive
itself spinning up and apparently working returns a
"hard disk read failure" error.

Trawling the web, I found a short thread entitled "HD
repair techniques" on cctalk. Like the original author
of this thread, I too have a drive that contains data
that is perhaps not worth the hundreds of pounds (GBP)
that professional data recovery entails but wouldn't
mind recovering the data all the same.

Can anybody point me in the direction of any good
information regarding the testing/diagnosis/repair of
head-disk-assembly problems?

Roger
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 07:02:01 BST