Can dead battery cause hard disk trouble?

[techknight]

REPLACE The capacitors... period... story ended...

 

[onlyonemac]

REPLACE The capacitors... period... story ended...

I have now. It fixed the RAM problem, the sad maccing and the whistling through the speaker. However, the hard drive still spins down after power up, and it doesn't seem to ever work (although only time will tell). Once, it did the other thing where it would play half the death chime before playing the happy chime and asking for a boot disk (I don't know why it's doing that-anyway).

How could I fix the hard disk trouble? (So far I've tried a PRAM battery and a recap)

 

[mcdermd]

Get a new hard drive.

 

[techknight]

if there is data on it you can quickly perform the head un-park trick, but other than that you toss it and buy another one. I recommend the older IBM SCSI drives. I never had one die. I can only say the opposite on the new "deskstar" series though.

 

[onlyonemac]

Unfortunately, I tried that the other day and my clumsy finger scraped the top platter :I .