hard drive wont spin

melekalikimaka

i took out my 250 gig storage drive during anew os install so as to avoid messing it up and formatting it(its happened to me before). I stuck it back it and it will not not spin up, no sounds at all, it gets a bit warm and thats it, any ideas?

Ginger

Is it picked up in the BIOS when you boot up???

Is it jumpered as the correct option ie slave or master on the channel that its being used on.

If you are using an expansion controller eg such as a PCI IDE/SATA Controller have you installed the drivers in your OS

What OS did you install..

Did you follow all the usual anti-static stuff before removing it and keep the drive somewhere where it wouldnt get static fried??

melekalikimaka

in the bios when my od drive is connected alone, grub loads up, but when i add the storage drive it recognises neither disk and disk boot error comes up, so i have to keep it disconnected to load windows/linux. if i just plug in the storage drive, the same message comes up, and when i try detect in the bios it can't find the drive. indeed it wasnt damaged to the best of my knowlegde, left on a wooden counter for a few hours thats all, nothing went near it....in saying that, i had a 40 gig a few weeks back that fried also, but i put it down to my power supply dying

Ginger

Sounds like its jumpered incorrectly. Set the 40GB as the master and then set the 250gb as the slave if they are on the same channel (ie cable)

melekalikimaka

the os it set to master and the 250 is set to slave already

Ginger

Hmmm

Got a spare IDE Cable to check that the cable is good? Also make sure all the pins are ok on the storage drive

melekalikimaka

tried it on a caddy,still no sound...grr. pins seem ok

Ginger

Unless you have a spare machine to verify it, it sounds like it might be busted.. or else the power cable may be dead..

I am trying to eliminate the cheap options before we take the idea of it having gone to the great modem in the sky

Did you adjust the jumpers when you put it in the caddy

melekalikimaka

tried it on slave/master neither worked, tho i don't think that matters on a caddy. i'm gonna try the freezer trick if nothing works, strange this is the second time this has happened in a month...damn hate losing all my files again

Ginger

If you have a second dead drive, do you have a short circut somewhere or did you static fry it when you were taking it out.

I am taking that you powered down before removing the drive etc.. all stupid questions I know..

Any of the pins broken on the hard disk?

melekalikimaka

the power supply went on the pc, and then my old 40 gig drive died, the 250 (storage) was fine, got a 160 gig and installed win/linux on it, been storing away recently, then last night i did a clean os install and the 250 isn't responding now

Ginger

Dude without physically looking at the disk i dont know.. its possibly fried...

If you have a mate who's comp you can stick it into just to verify it might help

melekalikimaka

sadly its IDE not SATA so I can't... i think the caddy would have done the same in that sense...ah welll, there goes another dive...sigh

Ginger

OK

Scenario as is...

It worked before..

Nothing to suggest it got fried so far anyways

Why not try it on a mates machine before giving up the ghost. IDE will still work ok.

It didnt drop or anything did it???

Only other thing i can think of is that the drive head cannot overcome the force neccessary for it to lift off the platters. Common in old hard disks not in the newer types

Right time for unothodox approaches..

boot the machine and leave the drive connected with just the bios running and maybe it will start spinning up after a while

After that its the freezer trick