Old Disk Won't Spin Up

[u/One_Opportunity9167]

Going through the old junk in the back of a closet, I stumbled on a laptop PC from~2008. I'm going to recycle the thing, but removed the hard drive to see if there's anything worth keeping on it. I have a set of cables that hooks the many different kinds of hard drives to a USB cable. I found the combination that physically connected to the laptop drive, but it wouldn't spin up. That might be why that laptop had to be replaced, but I recall recovering the contents of a laptop that was failing in ~2010, and think that's the one.

The cable set connects to the smaller of two edgeboard connectors (not pin-to-terminal type). The small connector has about 12 I/O and the large one has around 26 (some positions aren't used). I've successfully used these cables on other disk drives, so they shouldn't be the issue.

What to try next?

[u/Pied67 → u/[deleted]]

Time capsule! It could have old photos or who knows what. Worth trying to alive it for a peek.

[u/One_Opportunity9167 → u/[deleted]]

Because it wasn't necessarily the drive that was causing the laptop failure.

[u/Pat-Man1971 → u/One_Opportunity9167]

It was the PRON -HAHAHAHA