Ugh, I think doomsday is finally here (HD crash)

[skizzo]

XP and WD Raptor 60GB

I woke up today to BSOD Kernel_stack_in_page error. Rebooted, BIOS behaving slowly...then gets stuck at detecting IDE drives. Let it sit for a good 15 minutes and it will not detect the drive. I cannot enter BIOS with my main HD SATA cable connected. I disconnected it, and it detected my secondary HD and let me enter BIOS. I pulled drive out, dusted it off and reinstalled it upside down just for kicks, and nothing. I plugged another SATA cable into my motherboard and plugged that into the drive, and it is not detected at all as if it's not hooked up and I can enter BIOS, wondering if its the wrong kind of SATA cable? I tried swapping the SATA cable from my secondary drive to the main drive, same thing as originally got, stuck at detecting IDE drives and can't enter BIOS.

Why can I not get any response from BIOS about the drive, is this known to happen for failing drives? The drive wasn't exhibiting any symptoms of failure recently, except one thing I did notice last night right before I went to bed is that instead of the normal jack-hammering Raptor drive head noise I hear when the drive is working, it was much softer and actually sounded like I normal drive.

Is this the end? It seems my only option may be installing Windows on my secondary drive or a new drive, and getting a hold of a external USB drive enclosure to see if I can recover any data from the drive...but I don't even know if I should bother with this is I can't get any response from the drive.

If anybody has any suggestions, please let me know.

 

[popatim]

Dont waste your time, if your motherboard cant see it in any sata connector then neither will the external enclosure.

I'm curious thou, does the drive spin up?

edit - by the way, many new disk based drives are faster than the raptors in transfer speed for a good portion. (transfer speed slows down as the head moves inward on the disk) so you dont really need to spend alot to get decent speed.
http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives-storage/991811-samsung-f3-1tb-raid1-faster-than.html

 

[skizzo]

Does not spin at all, as I do not hear the normal jackhammering noise the drive normally makes. It was suggested that I put it in the freezer for a couple of hours then give it a try, I guess that's my last resort as I've read freezing helps with drives that aren't spinning.