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    new 7200rpm hard disk dead?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by rudeboymcc, Mar 21, 2008.

  1. rudeboymcc

    rudeboymcc Notebook Guru

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    Hi. I just got a hitachi laptop 100gig sata 7200rpm hard disk (new). i connected it to my external enclosure and formatted it. then i cheched for bad sectors (still using windows), but half way through i realised it was taking too long so i restarted windows.

    now the hard disk won't spin up. i haven't dropped it, the only thing i did was try to connect it to my vaio but that says no hard disk is found in the bios.

    anyone have any ideas?
     
    rudeboymcc, Mar 21, 2008
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    What about if you put it in the enclosure? does windows still recognise the drive?
     
    flipfire, Mar 21, 2008
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    rudeboymcc Notebook Guru

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    No, nothing ocmes up in windows and the drive doesn't spin up.
     
    rudeboymcc, Mar 21, 2008
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    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Bad move on the restarting, while it may take a long time, I would definitely wait it out and until I am 100% certain that it stalled or is frozen.

    Try:

    Right click My Computer -> Manage -> Storage -> Disk management


    Is the HD there?
     
    coriolis, Mar 21, 2008
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    rudeboymcc Notebook Guru

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    nope. the hard disk had nothing on it, so i'm not worried about data loss. and the external enclosure has it's own power supply so i was confident nothing bad would happen :(

    I've just taken it out the freezer and still no luck. given it a few knocks but it seems completely dead.

    if it was trying to spin up, would there be any sound at all? like a buzz coming from the motor? i can't hear anything but i'm tryin to find out if it's a mechanical problem or a problem with teh psu. do hard disks have fuses?
     
    rudeboymcc, Mar 21, 2008
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    alynch75 Notebook Evangelist

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    this happened to me before. I thought it was the drive but when i put the drive into the origihinal computer it worked fine. try to put the drive in the computer. I know that some external enclosures suffer from low power via the usb and/or firewire... even the esata have issues. put the drive in a computer and then format
     
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    rudeboymcc Notebook Guru

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    i have, i put it in my laptop and the bios says no hard disk. and the enclosure is powered anyway so there shouldn't be power issues (it's running another 3.5" hard disk now and it works fine
     
    rudeboymcc, Mar 21, 2008
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    rudeboymcc Notebook Guru

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    take it it's actally dead then. Not impressed so far. I've never gone for hitachi before but apparently this drive was faster than the samsung momentus so i payed more for it. Just ordered the samsung momentus 200Gig (same price as the Hitachi 160), heard it's quieter and i haven't had a samsung fail on me yet.
     
    rudeboymcc, Mar 22, 2008
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