9.04 can't find second hard drive.

[Chris Mohler]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Accessys at smart.net<accessys at smart.net> wrote:
>
> well the USB - IDE HDD box arrived today and I put the offending drive
> in it and still not recognized even though it spun up...
>
> so put another HDD in the box and fired it up, and was immediately
> recognized.
>
> seemingly obvious that it is something bad in the electronics of the
> HDD......  dead drive.
>
> bummer, not sure if there is easy or inexpensive way to dump the data
> from the disks but guess I should resign myself to consider it scrap

I've heard that one can freeze a HD, and it *might* work again for a
short while.  I've never had to find out whether or not it works, but
it might be a last-ditch option (if it's scrap anyway, you have
nothing much to lose).  Google around for "hard drive freezer" or
"hard drive freezer trick".  If you do attempt this, I would
definitely use the USB enclosure and also be ready to copy files right
away - even if it works, it will not last long...

Good Luck!
Chris