hi specialists,

I have a WD IDE 200GB here and it has fallen down off a table. it has been inside a USB external case and it did not spin when falling down...
now, if you power it on (connected to an IDE bus), it just buzzing and humming. so I opened the drive in a koettermann flow box to investigate the physical damage:
it looks great. no scratches, no broken parts visible. but spindle does not spin up. ok, let´s promote the discs a little. but: no success. no movement at all.
so I tried to move it very hardly (with the thumb, radial, as good as you can do it within a flow box...) - no movement at all, no millimeter...
it seem. that the spindle bearings are totally stuck...

do I have any chance to approach data recue?

thanks and regards
Tom

ok.
weird thing...
someone _here_ who wants to do this job??
or do I really have to contact ontrack...?
regards
tom

Are you giving us an ultimatum??
Why don't you just send it to ontrack and see.

dear nice guy,
thanks for your very friendly reply.
I suppose you might have got something wrong here though...
as I know that some people here earn their money by doing recovery jobs I liked to ask here at first if someone would be interested. I would like to support these instead of going to the big ones. their market power is huge enough... but, if no one is interested to do so, I have to call some commercial companies. there was no ultimatum. not as I would know...

and:
please take your gun away.
thanks and regards
tom

Hi,
I have interest, but I'm in Brasil.
But I think that I can help you, I will try to contact a friend mine in Germany and I can point you to him his name is Christian and he works with same things that you can read here and he has experience.
Since you have interest you can contact me using my email or using PM.
hddlab@uol.com.br
Regards
Jose Pinto

Thanks!
you have mail.
Tom

Hi,
any one else who feels able to do this job...?
the one recommended by jose asked me to wait for 2 weeks because of his holidays...
now he wrote me that he is not able to do the job (because it´s three platters...)