If you want the data off, OnTrack will do an assessment for $100.00 and give you a listing of the data you can get off. Then to actually get the data it will cost between $800-2400. If your interested, let me as I get a discount for my CSI Minneapolis business. Brock On 9/13/05, John Meier <john.meier at gmail.com> wrote: > I have a hard drive that is not detected by the bios - it spins up and > then you hear what sounds like a ping pong ball being dropped into a > tin can "plunk, plunkplunk" and then about 2 seconds later "plunk, > plunkplunk". > > Thought this would be a good time to learn and play with a drive (open > it up and check out what's going on). I figure that there's nothing I > can do to get ANY data off of it - or is there? > > To me it sounds like the arm that has the heads on it is trying to > sweep out and read the disk but "plunking" back to the park position - > is this an indication of the controller board going bad? Anyone know > of a resource where I can read up and figure out what is failing - > I've googled all morning but keep getting hits for data recovery > services.... > > thanks > john > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >