Maxtor 300GB not recognized

[i2omani]

Howdly folks,
I moved my desktop from one room to the other and hookup everything and powered my desktop only to find out that my SATA maxtor 300GB is not recognized. Bios " no drive found in sata1" and i don't see it in windows, and when i opened the case i found the HDD was just sitting loose on-top of the bay ( no one to blame here except my self, i forgot screw it down).

i don't hear it click or spinning , so i don't know if it is getting power or not, tried different sata port and everything is still the same.

I want to recover my data but i just don't want to order the PCB unless i am 100% sure it will work! i read somewhere else that just changing the PCB is not the solution because the old PCB will have some data cached?! is this true and what will be my best bet please.

thank you in advance

 

[Kitten Kong]

have you tried the drive in another pc, or with a ide-usb connector?

or a different sata cable, and sata power cable?

 

[i2omani]

have you tried the drive in another pc,

No, didn't try that

ide-usb connector?

No, didn't try that

different sata cable, and sata power cable?

Yes, i tried it.

i think i will go try the IDE/USB SATA adapter and will post back

thank you

 

[i2omani]

i tried the USB/SATA adapter and that didn't work

 

[iptech]

If you move the unit with the hard drive loose the chances are it was shocked during the move and damaged.

If you hold your hand against a drive as the PC is powered up you can usually 'feel' if the drive is spinning-up. Slave onto another machine and run manufacturer diagnostic across it.

 

[i2omani]

If you move the unit with the hard drive loose the chances are it was shocked during the move and damaged.

If you hold your hand against a drive as the PC is powered up you can usually 'feel' if the drive is spinning-up. Slave onto another machine and run manufacturer diagnostic across it.

nope its not spinning , i mean regardless of the loose HDD i am really careful with my toys and i handle them very carefully.! but you never know what you gonna get.

what will be the use to slave it in another PC, i tried different sata slots in the same machine.

BTW: i have seen a post here that talks about a segate and they used a terminal cable and TTL ? what is that please folks?

Thank you

 

[MLCS]

It sounds to me like you killed it bud. I've only run into two COMPLETELY dead drives like this in the past. If you're sure it's getting power and you can't feel/hear it spinning it's done for. Best price I got from a HDD repair company to open it up in a clean room and fix it was about $2k USD.

So unless there's some kind of EXTREMELY important and revenue intense company info or anything like that, better start figuring out what you had. If you're a tech worth your weight you BETTER of had a backup of your personal files.

 

[Pc Fixed Right]

Is your hard drive seagate with firmware 7200.11? Anyway this is the thread I started and got the drive working with the ttl cable.

http://www.technibble.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20016

 

[i2omani]

FIXed

yayyyyyy it was the board. Problem Solved

Thank you all for help and suggestions