hard drive does not power up

[sachida]

i have seagate 120 bg barracuda ata v drive that was working fine untill I opened my case to change the dvd drive that was not working well.

After restart, there was a boot failure, BIOS does not show my hard drive.
that is the only hard drive i have on the system.

I did followint to trouble shoot
1. changed the ide cable and power cable, no success.
2. used ide port for cd and it was recognized in bios indicating that everything is fine with mobo and power supply
3. took hard drive and made it slave to my work computer, sorry to say but it somehow resulted in corrupted hard drive on my work computer (virus??)
4. put the windows xp recovery cd and it tells me again there is no hard drive

only thing happened during dvd drive installation was i tangled my ide cables and hard drive got a srong yanking as it was not screwed to the chases.

hard drive is out of warranty

what are my options and suggestion to fix it. what kind of screwdriver i will need to open the hard drive?

 

[cdogg]

Try making the hard drive the ONLY attached IDE device inside your PC. Place it on the primary IDE channel and at the very least see if the BIOS can recognize it.

It sounds like there may be a jumper issue of some sort. Either that, or somehow you sent enough of a shock to the PCB (circuit board) on the hard drive causing electrical damage.

~cdogg
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[sachida]

Thanks cdogg, I did what you suggested and bios does not see harddrive. Actually I dont feel hard drive reving up at all so my feeling is it is not getting power.

In case if I have damaged pcb, what would be my option??

 

[cdogg]

Just to be sure, double-check that the hard drive has the jumper set correctly to master. Also make sure it is attached to the end of the IDE cable, not the middle. On some drives, this can make a difference. Other than that, there's not much else to try except the same steps in another PC.

If that doesn't work either, your last option is to find another identical hard drive (with the same firmware version printed on the label) and swap the PCB boards. It's an easy process that doesn't involve opening the drive or soldering.

Preferably, you'll want to get a brand new drive to do the swap with. The reason is that data is stored on the PCB board over time as a drive is used. It records S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics (disk access time, bad sectors, etc). If you swap one from a used drive, you run the risk of the PCB board not properly identifying or accessing part of the drive you are trying to fix. However, if your drive model has been out on the market for a while (being 120GB, I assume it has), then it will be tough to find one with the same firmware.

You might run into others suggesting that you try "freezing" the hard drive, but I highly recommend you avoid it except as a last-ditch option when paying for data recovery isn't worth it. Freezing a drive for several hours can bring some back to life just long enough to get the data off, but will most likely ruin the drive for good in the long term. Moisture will condensate on the inside possibly causing damage to the platters. If you do decide to go this route, search on the net for info. There are some good procedures out there to help you get the most out of this desperate attempt! The key is to use the drive immediately after removing it from the freezer.

You have to use caution against letting moisture drip inside your case. DO NOT risk attaching the hard drive to a power cable if the outside fo the drive is already wet. You need to attach it before this happens!

~cdogg
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[acewarlock]

The Power connector your using may be Bad, try one on the other one's that may be spare. You said you plugged it into the CD drive connector, did you use the Power connector from the CD also.




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[burtsbees]

Have you tried putting the old dvd drive back in and then trying it?
Cdogg, I have done the pcb swap before---works like a charm---I even had an 80GB SATA and put the board on a 300GB SATA, Maxtor.

Burt

 

[sachida]

Thanks everyone for your input.
I think pcb swap is my only option after trying number of things. Problem is the hard drive is atleast 5 yr old and my data is mostly backed up so I am not in dire need. Only problem is reinstalling OS and buying new hard drive for the computer that has reached its max potential. So I just went all in and got new pc. I am like a little boy before christmas....here is the build from dell

DELL EPP Inspiron 530 Desktop Q6600 Quad 2.4 GHZ (easy to overclock to 3 ghz), 1gb ram (order 2 gb more from clubit) 250GB HD + 24" 1920x1200 E248WFP, only $700 shipped with tax.

will work on old harddrive with pcb if I find one, reinstall os and sell it off the ebay/craigslist.

 

[burtsbees]

Have you tried putting the bad dvd ROM back in with the hard drive, exactly the way it was before, and THEN trying it???

Burt