Hard Drive backup wont spin up

[jaclaz]

You can also try shouting very hard at it, using a magic wand and some spells on it, you can freeze it:

Will try that one next time one of my drives dies

Don't think it's easy, you have to know the right words, usually electronics are rather "tough", what helped is some occasions was having a BORG recording of the sentence:

Resistance is futile!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_is_futile

played VERY loud for a few hours.

(but do not put the loudspeaker TOO near to the dead HD, it's magnet won't do any good to the platters )

jaclaz