revive a hard drive

[highrev15k]

Heres my problem, I was adding another fan to my pc and one of my hard drives stopped working. I checked the sata connectors and I also checked the power connector. No problems were found. I switched out the power connectors just to be safe and still the drive dosent show up in windows.

I need some more ideas that I can test to see if this drive is really busted. I have a little bit of a hard time believing that the drive would just die all of a sudden when the others are doing just fine and they are just as old (less than a year).

I cant send it in under warranty so dont bother with that. Thanks for everything in advance.

 

[Cromewell]

Switch the SATA cable and switch SATA ports. Does the drive show up in the BIOS?

 

[highrev15k]

I switched both the cable and the port- no change.

The drive does not show up in bios either. Any other ideas? I don't really want to buy another drive, plus i have a lot of data on that drive.

 

[Cromewell]

You could try switching the control pcb on it but theres no guarantee that will fix it. You need the pcb from an identicle drive to replace it.

 

[highrev15k]

Well after many hours of trying new cables and what not I got very frustrated and angry. I was fed up with this drive and since there was no more i could do i dropped it on the ground a few times.

Guess what?! It works now!

I have no idea what I did but it now is being seen by windows and all my files are still there. Whether they are still readable is another story. Thanks for you ideas cromewell. I guess I should just start throwing more pc parts around when they start to break.

 

[Cromewell]

I'd back that stuff up while you can. Hard drives can take a lot of shock while they are off but dropping it still isn't something I would do regularly/at all

 

[highrev15k]

ya, infact the data wouldent come off. Thats all right though it was one of my cheap drives though it sucks that I couldent save the files. Before I dropped it it had finally powered on and I could easily hear the COD so i knew it was toast. No biggie, I knew HD's could fail.