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Grrr.
I'm disheartened.
Thanks for the replies.
I tried the freezer trick last night, with no joy. The 12 and 5 volt power is good at the connector.
No clicks, hums buzzes...nothing. She's as silent as a buried casket.
I may try to cannibalize it and get a new drive to put the platters in, unless there are any other suggestions.
If the drive motor has a bad sector it could have stopped in a dead spot. Depending on whether you can get to the drive's spindle you can either turn it a little by hand if you can or try twisting the drive quickly in a CW direction a few times to try and shift the platter assembly. Then reconnect it and try it. If it runs get it backed up before you ever turn it off again. I have done this technique several times in the past but newer drives usually have brakes on the spindle for anti-shock purposes so it may not work.
RAID 1 is not much protection if you are using less than 3 drives. A 2 drive array is just striping the data and has no parity drive to use for recovery. RAID 0, mirroring, is better because both drives are being used as dual copy resources. RAID 5 using at least 4 drives is much safer because then you do have a parity drive so any one drive going down can just be swapped out and rebuilt.
I have recovered data on several drives if the main board is the defective part, or the data has been inadvertently deleted.HELP!!!
I have an old 30GB Western Digital IDE HD that is not spinning.
Does anyone here do data recovery, or can it even be done with a bad drive? It was working fine when shut down, but now refuses to spin up.
This drive has never seen the internet, or a network and no files get imported to it. It is from a computer designed solely for creation, so I'm ruling out viruses or outside corruption.
This disk is the data drive of music recording tracks, mostly of my band, but also including my family playing original compositions. Some were backed up, newer recordings have not been.
I'm really saddened about losing this, and I feel I'm about to find out what price I will, or will not, put on memories.
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I have recovered data on several drives if the main board is the defective part, or the data has been inadvertently deleted.
If you are certain there is no spin to the drive, the main board is defective. Purchase the identical drive on eBay or New Egg, and swap the main board. I use an external USB drive adaptor, and a software tool to test hard drives. Some hard drives can be electronically access using a tool to check the drive's health.
Bytecc sells some an inexpensive USB IDE/SATA Drive Adaptors.
I use HD Tune Pro to check hard drive's health.
http://www.hdtune.com/
I also use File Scavenger Data Recovery utility to recover deleted files on good drives.
Good Luck!