No Spin-Up

[sechs]

One of my ATA drives very suddenly does not spin-up or apparently power-up at all. Beyond poking it with a stick, repeatedly plugging a molex connector into it, and exhorting it to work, is there anything that I might do to revive it, if only long enough to get the data off of it?

 

[ddrueding]

Freezer trick has helped me in similar situations...

 

[sechs]

I guess I'll need to find a large ziplock....

 

[sechs]

Nada. The drive doesn't even get ID'd by the controller.

It's as if it isn't getting any power at all.

 

[Pradeep]

Perhaps the solder connectors where the molex connects to the hard drive controller have seperated?

 

[sechs]

They look fine; can't pull them up or anything. Checked over the entire PCB; looks to be exactly the same as the day I got the drive.

 

[mangyDOG]

What brand of hard-drive is it?


cheers,
mangyDOG

 

[sechs]

It's a Hitachi 180GXP. Worked perfectly until failure.

 

[Will Rickards WT]

Sounds like it was subjected to some sort of power surge. I don't know what you can do in these cases, short of swapping boards. Maybe contact IBM support and see if there is anything you can do?

 

[sechs]

You mean Hitachi.

It's not quite worth that much effort. It's data I'd like to have, but can live without. Like the original PDFs of my taxes... I have paper copies, but those would be better.

I guess I'll be exercising the remaining three months of its warranty....