My Second Hard Drive Disappered!

SirKenin said:
aramp1:

I did some searching for you. First, I have never seen a drive demonstrate those characteristics from a bad cable. I found ONE guy on the internet that claims he has had all kinds of issues due to a bad cable, but the BIOS still detected the drive. However, there was no substantiating evidence on Google that I could find, and I tried several different searches.

That's not to say it's absolutely not a bad cable, but I found no references to a bad cable on Google at all. Not one. There is only one of two things that happens. The connector jostles loose and needs to be reseated, or the drive needs to be unplugged and plugged back in. If those two don't solve the problem it is safe to say that the drive is cooked. I would certainly try those two things. I found several references to that effect in my search.
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Thanks for your help. It definitely isn't the cable. I've tried about 5 different ones that I knew were good. I ended up taking it to a data recovery place. Basically the drive is fried. They won't be able to get anything off of it unless they break into the drive. It isn't a bad partitian. I've just got to decide if I want to spend $500 or so to get the pictures and documents back. Luckly, it wasn't my music hard drive. I just bought a new Segate 320 Gig that I'm going to have everything backed up on. This isn't going to happen to me twice.
 
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