Hard drive stoped working

[JSRcs]

BAFFLED:

if any one can help me it would be great, whilst fixing a clients computer the i did a standard reset and when it booted up it wouldn't pick up the hard drive, and wont in 4 other computers. I have never had this happen to me before, can anyone tell me if you can get data recovered from anywhere even if the hard drive wont read in the BIOS???

 

[paparazi]

JSRcs
I would certainly not write it off just yet!
Try a new IDE cable
Try hooking it up on another system as slave to an existing master
Martin

Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.

 

[JSRcs]

Yeah i have done that on my personal system and it just refuses to be found. Still baffled

 

[zeitghost]

If the controller card is stuffed a data recovery company may be able to help.

What make is the drive?


rgds
Zeit

 

[SYAR2003]

If the bios recognize the disk ,data can be recovered by
"getdataback" for sure.
Two versions exist .
GDB for FAT .
GDB for NTFS .

Free trial for scanning the disk can be downloaded from

http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

If you want to restore files ,licensed version must be purchased.Test with the trial if data is recoverable.

Try it out.

syar

 

[rclarke250]

been seeing a lot of 20-40gb hdd from maxtor and seagate failing...in the last week I've seen 7 hdd's fail. everyone a 20 gb maxtor that shows hdd0 failed during boot. Diags won't even start with these drives.

 

[JSRcs]

Yeah well thats what it is a 20gb Maxtor

What could be causing this? any ideas

 

[andyman34]

Is the drive spinning up freely or making any unusual clicking noises?
If the fault is a mechanical one with a seized platter it is possible to get it running at least long enough to transfer data from it.

You can try tapping the drive on a hard surface such as a table a couple of times although not too hard,or sometimes if you seal the drive into something like a freezer bag and leave in the freezer overnight this will temporarily reactivate the drive.

If the fault is not a mechanical one and the drive is either totally dead or spinning freely the fault will be on the pcb and not a lot can be done unless you find an identical model drive and swap the pcb.