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Veteran Member
I have one for you, i have acquired an old Zenith Z-159 with a 360kb flop and a 20mb hdd, full height Authentic IBM. It spins up, then spins down. Turn off, Spins up, spins down. I whacked it, spins up, clicks, spins down. Whacked it with blunt object. Spins up, chirps cheerfully, works normally, hellaciously slow. It's the second hard drive to do that to me due to age. A New-Old stock drive i'd gotten, hadn't been spun up in 20some years did the same thing, whacked it, not it's flawless. Here's my question, is it possible that the Head Actuator / Arm gets stuck from disuse and needs come encouragement?