ill see if i can find my way to the place you mentioned, i havent been to preston since i was at uni there for a year in 1999!!
driven through a few times but thats about it

Quote from: crazylegsill see if i can find my way to the place you mentioned, i havent been to preston since i was at uni there for a year in 1999!!
driven through a few times but thats about it

if you where at uni here then youll know Foster Building?  Head up towards Roper Hall and 4Mat is on the right just as you come off the roundabout.

As mentioned already have you put it in the freezer yet? this technique does work, I have done it myself no less than twice.

Quote from: matt5cottAs mentioned already have you put it in the freezer yet? this technique does work, I have done it myself no less than twice.

what about thrice?

DOes the drive Spin Up?
It may not be Drive fault, but the board could ahve failed. Its happened to me several times with a maxtor. Changed the board for an identical one & all working...

no the drive doesnt spin up

I would be more inclined to think its teh circuit board thats gone tits up rather than the motor.

IF you can find an identical drive & model number, with the same board revision, you could swap the circuit board.

like I said, ive had several maxtors go tits up this way. Drive works fine, except the controller board died, so the HDD wouldnt spin up
also noticing in your pics, that the BIOS/POST aint detecting it either.

tbh this doesnt surprise me given that I have discovered she had a ibm deskstar drive
I may well have similar drives that I stopped using years ago, but wouldnt know how to change the circuit board


what does BIOS/POST not detecting suggest eggonline?

Quote from: crazylegstbh this doesnt surprise me given that I have discovered she had a ibm deskstar drive
I may well have similar drives that I stopped using years ago, but wouldnt know how to change the circuit board


what does BIOS/POST not detecting suggest eggonline?

you can take a screw out cant you? just be screws & at most a ribbon, that easily detaches.

Quote from: matt5cottAs mentioned already have you put it in the freezer yet? this technique does work, I have done it myself no less than twice.

tried the freezer trick, didnt work
just waiting for a usb hdd caddy to arrive by post then im all out of ideas.

its the photos on the drive i wanted to salvage for her tbh, ah well

The Drive doesnt spin up, the drive doesnt detect.
Freezer is for a sticking spindle.. Caddy wont do anything because the drive wont detect - Really does sound like the controller board if shagged

^^^

what egg said

best bet is to try and get an identical drive on ebay

yup im with egg. Needs to be recongnised in the bios for spinrite to actually work on it anyhow Thought it was by what you said.

ive just taken the board off a 40gig ibm deskstar (faulty drive is a 60gig deskstar)
i presume that would work?
it still doesnt power up though - same error messages