Primary Master Hard Disk Failure

[turkster]

Well if it is not spinning then i'm afraid there is little hope for it. As far as i know the the motor control is seperate from the controller and this probably means the motor is dead and i don't think it is possible to change the motor on modern drives without wrecking it.

As has been said if BIOS doesnt recognise it then there is f**k all chnace of getting any OS to recognise it.

I feel sorry for you with all your stuff on it . I suddenly realised the importance of backing up of my college stuff when i had a near escape with a hard drive a few weeks ago.

[directhex]

/me rubs RAID 1

[Blub2k]

You could try hotplugging it, that will get around the bios detection issue, not saying it will work, but when it is already b0rked i think it is worth a chance.

[Steve]

Well if it is not spinning then i'm afraid there is little hope for it. As far as i know the the motor control is seperate from the controller

Yes, but the controller usually tells the motor to spin up.

[Falcon2004]

You could try hotplugging it, that will get around the bios detection issue, not saying it will work, but when it is already b0rked i think it is worth a chance.

Not a good idea, i tried that once and it totaly crashed my PC, completly fubared the 12Gb jobbie i had installed for the job and blew out ym 128Mb of jobbie RAM, i seriously recoment AGAINST it...

Falcon

[Blub2k]

Well thing is that this is the recommended method for getting xbox harddrives recognised when you wish to use them in a normal pc after removing them for a mod.
How can it blow badly on an atx board? I was of the impression ( totally not an overclocker so not 'into' voltages) that there is not a lot of power on this anyway and not a lot of damage could be done? If I'm wrong fair enough but aren't there caddies you can buy to make IDE hotpluggable that have no capacitors?

[Steve]

IDE wasn't designed to be hot pluggable. Though it is theoretically possible.

[Agent]

If your going to hotswap it, use a PATA->SATA converter.
SATA is hot-swapable.

[NeilI]

Okay, I shall try the hot swap.

My mum just took sympathy on me and shelled out for a 160GB spinpoint. Which was nice. And it has a 3 year warranty. I hope I got a good one!
She wouldn;t stretch to a couple of 74GB raptors though.... No RAID for me...

[Steve]

Nice, but for the sake of the spinpoint - don't install it until you've finished arsing about with the dud drive. It wouldn't be good to have two dead drives!