Re: western digital revival

From: Jupiter Jones (jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com)
Date: 09/14/02 

From: "Jupiter Jones" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:43:26 -0600

You did not say BIOS before, I should have asked.
If the hard drive is not seen in the BIOS of any computer with a known
good IDE cable (you did switch cables didn't you?)
You checked and tried different jumper settings on the hard drive.
Check the pins on the hard drive.
The hard drive is still not seen in the BIOS-Yes, you have a
paperweight.
Formatting, deleting files could not have caused this.
There was something catastrophically wrong about to happen and this is
the time.
Is the hard drive still in warranty? 

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Jupiter Jones
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"aw" <space312@msn.com> wrote in message
news:1129301c25b8a$ed661560$36ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa12...
> well the fdisk program would be a great tool except for
> the fact that the bios will not even see the drive being
> there, so it has no idea what to fdisk.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >You probably need to FDISK then format.
> >If format fails again, run the diagnostics from Western
> Digital.
> >Down load Data Lifeguard Tools:
> >http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp
> >
> >--
> >Jupiter Jones
> >Please respond to newsgroup only.
> >Everyone can benefit from the message.
> >
> >
> >"aw" <space312@msn.com> wrote in message
> >news:130cc01c25b7e$7f1a9290$3bef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA10...
> >> here's my delima. I had a 20 gb e-ide western digiatl
> >> wd200 hard disk in my dell pc. One of the kids thought
> >> he'd downloaded a virus, and as a fix just began to
> >> arbitrarily delete files, then decided that a disk
> format
> >> would be even better. Problem is for whatever reason
> the
> >> format failed to complete and what I am left with is a
> >> disk that cannot be found by the computer. I took it
> out
> >> of the dell and tried it in two other machines as both
> a
> >> master and a slave on each, and in every instance the
> >> machine would not see it, or the hard drive that was
> >> already on it. Take the bad drive off line and the
> others
> >> work fine again. Is there anything i can do to save
> this
> >> drive?  or is it a very fast paperweight?
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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