harddrive fried?

[David101]

hey guys.

my friend gave me a harddrive and said that HIS feiend's comp fried and so he gave him his parts. now, i asuumed that his mobo just fired and hd was ok so i took it (didnt pay nething yet) and having probs setting it up.

myquestion: if a hard drive fries, does it detect it at all or is it like bad sectors or something?

its an ibm deskstar 30.7 gb 7200 rpm hd. in my bios its set for auto detect, and it doesnt detect it @ startup. Am i setting the jumpers wrong? at the back it says master slave etc and 15 and 16 heads. i tried both but it still says "None" when it tried to detect. and i putting in the jumpers wrng and its not working?

also i tried this with my "old" computer (about 2 years, p3 650 old) and thats when it doesnt detect it..i will try my new comp in like 1-2 hours and maybe its just my old mobo that doesnt see it? do i have to set it up manually?

please help, if this works i can finally get my old comp back and running again

thanks.

 

[David101]

any1 got a clue?

 

[StraightPipe]

if you have a system with a working hard drive, make sure it is set to master and on the end of the IDE cable.
then putt the possible dud on the middle of the cable set as slave. it should boot up, if not then you have 2 steps.

1. go to IBM website and see if they have a disc utility, it will be able to tell you if the drives works (if it is connected correctly)

2. some drives are picky, and if they wont work on the normal master/slave config then putt them on the line (in same order listed above) and run both drives on CS (cable select). and then run the disc utility again.

 

[StraightPipe]

d sectors usually indicates that there was a write error (which can be caused by a number of things (randomness, heat, power surges...) if your drive was "fried" it probly wont do anything (and you either wont here it spin up at all, or horrible clicking/grinding)