dead HD?

[Paddy]

I came home from work today to find one of Andrea's friend's computers next to my desk.

I fired it up and no boot partition was detected. I went into the BIOS and it couldn't detect any harddrives.

I opened the box, removed the HD and connected it to my rig. My BIOS cant see it either.

seems dead to me.

Any ideas?

[ZokesPro]

Try clapping your hands and twirling around in a cirlce 4 times and see what happens. If nothing special happens (besides looking like a fool) then you have a dead hdd.

[Paddy]

LOL

I thought about sharing my beer with it?

[dZeus]

probably the electronics fried on the drive.

If the data on it was of great importance, you could always try to find an identical drive model and 'borrow' the pcb with electronic to use it to read all the data from the drive with the broken one.

[Paddy]

I am sure it is important. However, i have more important things to worry about. Finals are areound the corner

[Paddy]

Cheers for the input!

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by Paddy [MU]
I am sure it is important. However, i have more important things to worry about. Finals are areound the corner

Good patients on your finals!

Edit: I dunno, "good patients" sound kinda weird.

Edit 2: patience or patients? I'm confused.

[Paddy]

Dont wish me luck, wish my patients!

[K6-III]

Try throwing it in the freezer. You may get a few minutes of operation out of it...

[Paddy]

freezer????

[dZeus]

That probably only works for certain mechanical defects.

btw. Good luck on those patients

[RedRed]

is it spinning up at all?

if it is making a noise of some sort - or a vibration - 'stroke it'...

give it a tap with the end of a pen....


if that fails - a tap with a knuckle.............


if that fails drop it 1 inch.........................................



if that fails throw it against a wall! - its trashed any way and the satisfaction will do you good!

(I have heard of the freezer thing before - but its never worked for me...

RedRed

[Paddy]

I've thrown my stethoscope on it and it's not spinning at all....

Oh well!

Good job it isn't mine!

[Wombat]

Originally posted by ex RedRed
is it spinning up at all?

if it is making a noise of some sort - or a vibration - 'stroke it'...

give it a tap with the end of a pen....


if that fails - a tap with a knuckle.............


if that fails drop it 1 inch.........................................


RedRed

The 1" drop is highly unadvised. The only time it was recommended was with an old Maxtor "stuck head" problem. Even then, it was only a one-shot trick that was going to give you a couple hours to read the data off the drive - writing would be borked, and the drive would be worthless soon anyway.

[Technoid]

I wacked the drive from my mom's computer in a table a couple of times(very very hard since i was really frustrated) and after that it gave in and released its content's