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Slave Hard Drive Disappeared

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by eddandmilowerednova

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Yesterday my computer crashed and the hard drive running as a slave disappeared. I've tried different IDE and power wires, and the jumpers are in the right positions. This seems to be a fairly common problem but the difference with mine (worryingly) is that the computer doesn't even recognise the slave drive when it boots up. I can feel its running - though it feels pretty hot - and I have no idea how to fix it.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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Whenever I change the jumpers to a different position (one that still makes sense) the computer does recognise an IDE hard disk on the next boot up, but doesnt on any after that.
If i set the slave in BIOS from auto to '46' (for a 160gb drive) it boots up and reads the make and model of the drive, meaning the computer is still reading something from it - but still nothing in windows.
I'm running XP and both my primary and slave drives are Maxtors.

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by oh smeg

On the Bottom of the drive is still working OK, but it's likely that's all that's actually working.

Now the important questions Do you need any Data Off this Drive?

Just how important is any Data that is on this Drive to you?

Is it worth spending several thousand $ to recover in a best case scenario?

If the answer to any of the above was [b]NO[/b] junk the HDD and replace it with a new one now and forget the rest.

If you have Data that you absolutely need to recover you will need to take the drive to a Data Recovery House where they should charge you a quote Fee which is taken off the price of the recovery, here it's about $900.00 AU for the quote and the last dead drive that I had recovered cost $46,000.00 AU to recover the data from if that's any help to you.

Col

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