Dead Raptor Hard Drive

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Hello,

I have a 150GB Raptor hard drive that no longer shows up in Windows. I was getting disk write errors before that. I opened the case and the drive is not spinning. (It has a clear see through top)

I tried a brand new SATA cable, and another power connector (which I know works on another hard drive), but the drive still isn't spinning at all.

Is the drive completely dead or is there something I can do? It has about 100GB of data on it that I don't want to lose.

Thanks

Reply to albrecht27

Bummer, sounds like a 'dead' drive. Same thing happened to me. You can try in another machine, but I think it's dead. If you absolutely need the 100gb of stuff, you can take it to a computer shop and they can retrieve the info for you for a price (~$150-$200). They usually take the platters out and put those into another drive to access. Although they might be able to to fix it...either way it's not cheap.

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You can try to download the WD HD utility. Something like this may help
http://support.wdc.com/product/dow [...] =3&lang=en

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OK, thanks guys.

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