No spin?!

[mpman]

Hi,
I turned on my machine and i got a blue screen.
I turned it OFF and ON and the computer paused while running the BIOS, there was no spin and the HD light was on, i went to the BIOS and the HD was erased from the list, no detection - it didn't work after testing it on a different machine..

Any idea of how did it happen? is my info gone? how bad is the problem, will i be able to retrieve the info for cheap? is there a tool that i can use straight from a cd or a floppy that will manage to test the HD?

I use a P4 2.0, the HD is a 'Western Digital' 120GB ATA.


Thanks !

 

[chriseubank]

Western digital has utilities you can download to help diagnose a problem... (

http://www.westerndigital.com)

If it goes "kerplunk, kerplunk, kerplunk", then you can bet it's probably toast.

Hope that helps!
C

 

[mpman]

Thanks !
There are no sounds, no signs of life...

 

[paparazi]

mpman
It is a Possibility that your power supply just went bad and took out your hard drive.
Is it a cheap generic (came with standard case) power supply? these don't tend to have spike protection so can cause major damage when they fail.

Martin

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[mpman]

No, it was my Western Digital, they have problems these days.

I installed a Seagate and everything is ok.

The reason i want to know how bad the problem is, is that i want to send it for data recovery...