I have on several occasions to just get the info off, put the drive in the freezer in a zip lock for a couple hours then put the drive back into the system and try starting it will it is still nice and cold, worked about seven times out of eight. Got the stuff off to another drive and then stacked it in the corner with the rest of the dead ones. (don't know why I keep em)
Mark Dodge MD Computers Houston, TX -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 9:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [H] dead drive I have a 18 month old 1TB Seagate HD that has apparently died. I had about 800GB of video on it, two thirds of the space were backups of my DVD collection and I still have the DVDs so it could of been a lot worse. I was running it in an external drive bay, pretty much 24/7 when it just disappeared. I have never lost a drive by just disappearing, two others I have lost in the past all died slowly with failed access warnings or just screwing things up but this just went silently. After trying restarts and reboots I put it in another USB2 external drive bay with no change, then I stuck it in a PC and the same problem. If the BIOS can't see it then I can't recover anything so I guess I'm done... unless somebody has another idea?
