Hard disk suddenly not recognized by BIOS anymore

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"S. Lipson" <slipson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Suddenly one of the two large hard drives connected to a Promise
> Ultra100 PCI card is no longer recognized, and not detected in the
> BIOS. Western Digital 180gb (not detected) and WD 250gb (working
> fine).
>
> The only clue I have is that just prior to this problem, the mouse
> cable was jiggled in and out of the PS/2 port. I did detect a mild
> burning smell around the power supply, but it was subtle and maybe was
> nothing really unusual, and everything works okay, except the one
> drive hard.
>
> However, in the past, when the mouse port was not used, the Promise
> driver would not recognize the attached hard drives, and the system
> would freeze during boot-up. I always had to attach a mouse to the
> PS/2 port in order to run the PC with the Ultra100 drives.
>
> I later tried accessing the problem hard drive from an external hard
> drive case (USB interface), and the system froze during POST. As soon
> as the computer was turned on, the external case's green light started
> blinking and continued doing that when while the PC froze. (The 250gb
> drive worked fine in the external hard drive case.)
>
> I need to recover the data, and need to find out if the problem is
> physical hard drive damage, or a messed up MBR, FAT, partition, or
> something that might be fixed with software. I'm booting with a
> multi-OS boot utility called BootIt NT, but only running installations
> of Windows 98se.
>
> Any helpful advice would be much appreciated.
The drive has a hardware problem, it is BROKE! The only thing you can
try is to fit a new logic board from a same model drive, otherwise you are
into professional Data Recovery, which is VERY expensive, high 3 figures.
Mike.

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