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Originally Posted by split_joel
One thing you can try is buy the same make and model of the hard drive and once you have done that you can take the bottom circuit board and replace it on the hard drive that is not working. It is possible the hard drive and the platters are fine it is just the circuits on the board on the hard drive are not working.
This is a simple thing to do since you are not opening the hard drive.
Good luck.  |
I've thought about that, but the hard drive does get power, but it doesn't spin. I tried an technique most would say is crazy (putting the drive in a zip lock bag than put it in the freezer).. I kept it in there for 2 hours, took it out, plugs it back in and the bios read it so I loaded up windows on the c:, but the d: did not show up. Wasn't in the device manager or anywhere.
So, since freezing it did make the bios detect it it's safe to say that it's not a circuit board problem. More than likely the platters in this case.