I think it is spinning up because it looks like it's trying to boot up. It boots until the windows icon appears and the working circle of dots appears, then the dots stop being displayed, only the windows icon shows, and just sits there with the hard drive light blinks at very slow rate. Also running diagnostic says did not find any thing wrong with the disk!!!
We will see when the new machine comes it and making this drive as a USB drive if I can recover any data. Keep your fingers crossed.
Rocket Nut