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Sorry folks, as of April 2008, Computer Recyclers closed it's retail doors for good. We are strictly concentrating on true recycling. All material is ground/crushed and then all the material is extra ...

Probably overheated the drive and it made the sound as it seized up. Seeing as you didn't use it for a while, it was cooled enough for it to go again. It may do that again eventually.

Anybody else ...

This link may help out some...

http://www.data-recovery-hub.com/information/Physical-Repair/wd-pcb.php

Good luck!
Subzuki

-Is (was) the drive 7200RPM? If so, it could have overheated and the disk surface degraded from excess heat. I have seen many hard drives with the surface of the platter a beautiful hue of blue from e ...

I came across some sites that may help explain these problems. Apparently a board swap does not work. The information is usually still there, but the G-list is damaged. What is the G-list? Too lengthy ...

After learning about somebody having success swapping a board from a smaller drive to a larger drive, I decided to do a little experiment.
I selected 4 Quantum Fireball CR 4.3GB and 1 Quantum Fireba ...

If the 45GB drive is the only drive being used, does it still spin up?
Even if it does, you may still be able to swap the controller board and have it working properly again. You may have fried anoth ...

For a server, I would go with U320 SCSI drives from Seagate. The U160's are pretty solid in my experience.
Subzuki

Is it the same model? (Protege,Caviar)
It must be the same model. Can be a larger capacity drive from the same model family.
Does it have the same C.H.S.? (Cylinders,heads,sectors)
Firmware may pla ...

Not sure but maybe the external enclosure took the hit and not the drive?
Do other drives work in the enclosure still?
Tried the drive directly hooked up to the motherboard?
Subzuki

Hmm, I wonder if the voltages are the same for both drives? It has been a while since I came across this, but I vaguely recall noticing on older drives that sometimes the voltages on the drives were d ...

If I read your post right, you say you will try to swap platters in a worst case scenario. I strongly recommend you don't try this. You need to be in a 100% clean room first of all. Slightest bit of d ...

Hi there,

Toolhog had a similar problem. His Maxtor drive went up in a puff of smoke also. I changed the board for him and it worked perfectly. His drive was different than yours, but the symptoms ...

Well, if it isn't spinning, I still say the controller board on the drive is hosed. Especially if another drive works fine.
A long shot, but check the power connector on the drive and your power supp ...

-What do you mean by "I was bored so i played with the ide cables"?

-Did you have the power on when you *played* with the ide cables? Did you remove them with the power on? You could have fried th ...