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Hard disk data recovery problem

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peteris

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Platter drive motor failed on my Caviar 850 Mb drive<br>
during Lost&Found data recovery.<br>
Removed platter/hub assembly & installed into known good<br>
identical drive.<br>
Upon startup, read/write head moves from park zone roughly to centre of platter, pauses briefly, & then moves to extreme outside & stays there.<br>
Lost&Found shows that it is doing a disk analysis, but the R/W heads remain on the outside diameter until the drive is powered down.<br>
What is causing this, & how to fix?<br>
Thanks.
 
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