the drive from my performa 200 has died (that's 3 in last week)

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I ended up opening it up(hate having to open them)...it was the high pitch sound that was coming from it

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anyway there are 2 circular scrapes,grooves,scratches on the top platter.

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drive has 2 platters

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the sound I could hear sounded like there was something caught between the head and the platter. So I used a small piece of plastic, about 1.5cm back from the head, to gently lift the head just off the surface. and gave a good blow out

in the hopes there might be some particle caught in there of at the back of the head.

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reassembled , and it is trying to boot from the drive again...with no more high pitch screaming sound.

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it wont boot , so I boot from external drive. When boot complete im told thel scsi need to be initialized.

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I now have Anubis running... it sees the drive.

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I tries a few tests and the drive does some read, write tests, random seek tests etc etc........ it sounds good

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but a few errors come up

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what would be the best course of action from here on............initialize.....format....partition???

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any advice would be a big help here people

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thanks