Computer hard drive rescue

Once upon a time LOL Windows 98 hard drive in my tower refused to start. After I had pushed the power button on and off about 25 times, I called my brother. He said, "I'll have Tim ( his coworker ) give you a call". This Tim guy calls and says, "You need a new hard drive and a six pack by 4:PM Friday. So when he and my brother show up here, Tim removes my hard drive from its mounting, and installs the new one. He turned the still connected original hard drive onto its side in the bottom of the case, started tapping on a spot with screw driver and said, "push the power button". Damn thing started right up! ( Insert mind blown emojie here ) My brother says, "All you needed was Tim and his magic wand". His cloning software, about an hour, and I'm all good again.
A few years later, I tapped to hammered the crap out of one and I couldn't make it start. My brother referenced that Heart-Magic Man song and said, "That aint you". Oh well... Majority of what it held had been saved to disc anyway. Not magic but no long ignert either.