Hard Drive Failure Question

[ktehmok]

When a drive won't spin up, is it the circuit board that's the culprit?

 

[TriggerHappy101]

The details are overwhelming.

 

[Jiggz]

Most likely although it could have been caused by a seized motor or platter. It's never definite.

 

[ktehmok]

Sorry, I should have provided some more info. Long story short:

I was plugging in a usb card reader. The plug has the "USB" symbol on both sides, so you can't tell which is the right way to install (I"ve marked it w/ sharpie since then). Obviously, I put it in the wrong way, heard a disturbing noise from inside my computer, & everything USB stopped working.

I reboot, everything works fine. Except where my 100gb IDE F: drive was, is now one of the card reader drives. After multiple reboots (yes I took out the card reader) & looking in the bios/device manager/disk management, I take the drive out. Hook it up to an IDE to USB adapter and I notice that it isn't spinning.

I'd like to recover the data on it: About 4 years worth of pics, $200-300 worth of iTunes, and my prized 7-8gb of apps (not really prized, but god, I don't want to dl all of them again). I"m working on a donor drive right now in FS/FT. I have a very close match, but that could lead to disaster if it doesn't match up right.

Thanks for the interest, and any thoughts and/or suggestions are appreciated.

 

[bob4432]

bearing could be froze....