Hard Drive not powering on

[DrMERKiN]

This might be a dupe post, but i am new here. I have a 60GB Maxtor HDD. I took it to work, backed up all my info onto a 250GB drive... formatted mine to NTFS but used a quick format. Thought nothing of it, dragged and dropped my info back on, and tested it at work. Worked fine, eveyrthing i needed was there. I used an external hard drive bhey (sp?) to access it. Now i have it at home, and no power. The drive doesnt spin, i eve went out and bought a External bhey to see if it would start it. Any suggestions? I dont want to pay 2400 to get data off it, id rather take it appart myself.

-MERKiN

 

[paparazi]

And what does it do now when connected at work?
I presume you deleted the copied backup?
Is the power supply OK in your home PC?
Martin

We like members to GIVE and not just TAKE.
Participate and help others.

 

[pweegar]

And DON'T open and try to fix it yourself. In order to open the drive, it MUST be done in a clean room. Get a speck of dust inside and it'll mess up the drive in no time.

 

[DrMERKiN]

Well I will be able to help other people later. I just got on this forum, matter of fact i just found it last night, so I'm sorry if i have yet to help someone. I will keep that in mind.

Yes i deleted my backup :\, and when i take it back to work i still cant power it on. My manager used to do Data recovery, and told me it would be very hard to do... hehe. My home power supply works fine. I have that external IDE encloser where i tested a few of my other drives, and it worked just fine. No power at all for this drive. I think... That after a while if you lovely people cant help me, and i cant figure it out myself, I'm going to ... GASP take it appart. But i will make sure it is a dust free environment, and i will probably do it at my college, where i know most of the IT professors. Maybe they have some secret lab hidden some where.

But, before i babble everyone to death, I wanted to know if there is a way to jump start the drive. Because i know you can jump start a PC, wit ha screwdriver, I just wondered if there was a way to do it with a HDD

Thanks Guys
MERKiN

 

[garebo]

You can put a hard drive in a plastic baggie and put it in the freezer, then hook it up real fast and start the computer. Sometimes that will give you a few minutes to get at the data you want. But thats only if the drive is on the way out.
Why not just try and reformat it?
I would suggest you never take the drive apart. You cant make a room clean enough, it cost many thousands of dollars to make a clean room. Dust particles in the air will ruin the hard drive forever if you open it. Not a good idea.
Have you tried jumpering the hard drive as slave in a win xp machine?