Need a bit of help, Harddisk problems

[Zacharine]

No burnt smell and checked the visible circuit of the disk. No burnt mark of other clues pointing toward a shoter-out circuit.

have you checked the otherside of the circuit board

I don't have the tools with me to safely remove the circuit board.

Well from everything you have said and done it's got to be a short somewhere (unless someone can think of anything else?)

Assuming it's a short, might it be possible to repair the hdd and recover the data within?

If it's a short on the board and it hasn't damage the platters in the hdd yes. just get another make and model hdd and take the board from the new one and replace it on the old one
but if it's a short inside the hdd then you got a problem. you will have to send it off to either the maker or a data recovery (one that opens the hdd and move the platters to a new housing for them to access the data) and thats not cheap

Oh damn. Well, it's a trip to a computer store on monday. I just hope the data can be recovered. My latests backups lack almost 70h worth of work.

Man, got to start making backups more often than 3 times a month... Good thing all my paying work related data is stored on company drives at the office...

 

[CosmicGrenade]

No burnt smell and checked the visible circuit of the disk. No burnt mark of other clues pointing toward a shoter-out circuit.

have you checked the otherside of the circuit board

I don't have the tools with me to safely remove the circuit board.

Well from everything you have said and done it's got to be a short somewhere (unless someone can think of anything else?)

Assuming it's a short, might it be possible to repair the hdd and recover the data within?

If it's a short on the board and it hasn't damage the platters in the hdd yes. just get another make and model hdd and take the board from the new one and replace it on the old one
but if it's a short inside the hdd then you got a problem. you will have to send it off to either the maker or a data recovery (one that opens the hdd and move the platters to a new housing for them to access the data) and thats not cheap

Oh damn. Well, it's a trip to a computer store on monday. I just hope the data can be recovered. My latests backups lack almost 70h worth of work.

Man, got to start making backups more often than 3 times a month... Good thing all my paying work related data is stored on company drives at the office...

lol glad (if not alot) to of help ya

 

[Oopsie]

Have you tried clearing your RTC-Ram?

ohhhm, tried what now? That says nothing to me.

There's a battery located on your mainboard. Somewhere near it is a jumper, labeled "CRTC-RAM" or something simular. It deletes any (unintentionally) modified settings in the BIOS.
You remove the battery, switch the jumper position, wait for ten seconds, then put it back and reinsert the battery. For specifics look in your computer or MoBo manual (before trying it atleast, or use your google-fu skills).

I had a very simular problem a while back, only with a SATA HDD.
It might just be dead though.

 

[GreigKM]

Edit: Just read post, my bad...

 

[Zacharine]

Okay, thanks all for suggestions, I'll just hope it isn't too hard to recover the data. I'll guess I'll leave it to specialists. The shop I bought the hdd from does have computer support/repair business integrated into them.

 

[CosmicGrenade]

Have you tried clearing your RTC-Ram?

ohhhm, tried what now? That says nothing to me.

There's a battery located on your mainboard. Somewhere near it is a jumper, labeled "CRTC-RAM" or something simular. It deletes any (unintentionally) modified settings in the BIOS.
You remove the battery, switch the jumper position, wait for ten seconds, then put it back and reinsert the battery. For specifics look in your computer or MoBo manual (before trying it atleast, or use your google-fu skills).

I had a very simular problem a while back, only with a SATA HDD.
It might just be dead though.

I could see that working if he hadn't moved it from the Primary IDE to the Secondary IDE cable

 

[Oopsie]

Have you tried clearing your RTC-Ram?

ohhhm, tried what now? That says nothing to me.

There's a battery located on your mainboard. Somewhere near it is a jumper, labeled "CRTC-RAM" or something simular. It deletes any (unintentionally) modified settings in the BIOS.
You remove the battery, switch the jumper position, wait for ten seconds, then put it back and reinsert the battery. For specifics look in your computer or MoBo manual (before trying it atleast, or use your google-fu skills).

I had a very simular problem a while back, only with a SATA HDD.
It might just be dead though.

I could see that working if he hadn't moved it from the Primary IDE to the Secondary IDE cable

Along with his DVD. It's possible it's a ram-error.
The moving would probably also upset the whole master/slave setting.

 

[CosmicGrenade]

Have you tried clearing your RTC-Ram?

ohhhm, tried what now? That says nothing to me.

There's a battery located on your mainboard. Somewhere near it is a jumper, labeled "CRTC-RAM" or something simular. It deletes any (unintentionally) modified settings in the BIOS.
You remove the battery, switch the jumper position, wait for ten seconds, then put it back and reinsert the battery. For specifics look in your computer or MoBo manual (before trying it atleast, or use your google-fu skills).

I had a very simular problem a while back, only with a SATA HDD.
It might just be dead though.

I could see that working if he hadn't moved it from the Primary IDE to the Secondary IDE cable

Along with his DVD. It's possible it's a ram-error.
The moving would probably also upset the whole master/slave setting.

But it was his secondary hdd so it would of been set to slave so that shouldn't of been a problem

 

[Oopsie]

Unless the dvd and HDD had jumpers of their own, and were both at the same setting on the secondary cable. It's very hard to tell what's what without looking into the case though.
How I hate IDE.