Dead Hd

[t_revz]

Anyone have any tips for inspiring a hard drive back into life. Just formatted my computer and one of my other hd's isn't powering up anymore. And typically its the one with my music and pictures on it.

I've swapped IDE cables and power plugs. Can see it in disk manager but fails to load

Cheers

[Madaz]

Ive heard chucking in freezer and give it back some life, also depends what was going wrong with it

http://hacknmod.com/...ard-drive-data/

[t_revz]

Tried this morning while it was cold. Still no good. Although in disk manager it show a hd that says unallocated. I can add partitions but I don't understand partitions well and not sure if it would make it worse.

Pulled hd out as it was wedged between a few others. Can't see any physical damage to the board and it sounded like the motor was running. I tried again with it plugged into a different IDE cable. Now the power supply won't power up

I have an identical hd. If I can get everything off that then is it just a matter of swapping the circuit boards over and trying again?

[*LOACH*]

If you are just trying to retrieve data I have a thread about it.

In the end this happened:

"DONE!!!!!!!!!! only took a bit over 8 days to scan and then another day or so to copy. Today off to try to explain to the shop including having to say about 4 or 5 times that I dont care about the data on the drive anymore just gimme money or another drive and understanding about 2% of the Japanese that was being said to me. Dont know whats been corrupted but so far a lot seems to have been recovered. Mini power tool data recovery 6.5 did the job although I reckon Disk Internals would have done the same job in about 2 days."

Here is the thread:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/353567-windows-cant-detect-a-hdd-any-hope-of-recovering-data/page__hl__hdd%20recovery

[t_revz]

Cheers. Ill have a read after. Trying not to think about it atm so I'm not in a shit mood 2 days in a row