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Failed Drive?

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I just had a weird one - I thought I had lost all my data, but I got it back and now the drive seems to be working:
my WD 60GB Firewire drive started clicking, and I shut it down (which I regretted). Turning it on again it wouldn't spin up, or it would try to spin up and click several times and give up, so everything I read told me it was dead and little hope of getting my 55GB of data out without paying around $1000 for data recovery.

I bought a new drive (WD 80 IDE) got it all set and decided to give the failed drive another try to rescue data - it wouldn't spin up at all this time. I removed the firewire case and installed it as an IDE drive and was amazed that it worked and I got all my data off.

WD diagnostics finds no problems on the drive.

My question is, should I still trash the drive? (1 month out of warranty) Could it be the firewire case, and if so should I risk anopther drive in there to test it? I'd like to reuse the firewire case since that costs as much as the drive.

thanks for any thoughts

(system: dell p3 600 win 2k, 2 IDE HDDs, 1 Firewire ext HDD, 1 CDR IDE)
 
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