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WD 1200JB - Not Detected after failed Zero Fill

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rsatat

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I had a WD 120 Gb HDD on a separate PC which was hanging intermittently. I removed it and added it as slave to my current system and it got detected fine.
I downloaded the Western Digital HDD utilities and diagnostics from the WD site and tried a zero fill with it. During this process, it gave me a Machine Stop Exception and on reboot, the HDD is no longer being detected in BIOS or XP.
Thanks for any help.
RS
 
I wouldn't trust putting data on that drive so the logical thing to do is destroy it. You could also pull the top cover off and turn it into a desktop ornament.
 
I have a seagate 8Gb drive that I bought in 1997 which is still going strong... Dont know about the quality of WD drives...
 
For beter or for the worse, the WD 120 drive that you have has the best failure ratio after using it for 2-3 years. You may had zeroed out the firmware on the drive as well; which is why it won't ID now or the board finally went belly up.
 
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