Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 4:14 pm
Sounds like one of your hard drives went to the eternal hunting grounds of their forefathers, to Nirvana, to eternal bliss, to join the Dodos and the Dinosaurs on their eternal green fields, the Elysium ...
On a second thought: Did you check the cabling? Maybe you're lucky and it's just a loose cable ... I'd check that. If this doesn't help: Remove the drive and test it in a friend's computer ... or put it into a USB-drive bay (they can be bought for very cheap money in any computer store ...) .. If the drive still won't move .. Oh well: See above ... green fields, Dodos, Dinosaurs, Elysium and all that.
How old was the harddrive in question? 5+ years? Cheapo brands sometimes fail + die after a certain time. I personally have very bad experience with Maxtor drives and since then avoid them as far as I can ...
On a second thought: Did you check the cabling? Maybe you're lucky and it's just a loose cable ... I'd check that. If this doesn't help: Remove the drive and test it in a friend's computer ... or put it into a USB-drive bay (they can be bought for very cheap money in any computer store ...) .. If the drive still won't move .. Oh well: See above ... green fields, Dodos, Dinosaurs, Elysium and all that.
How old was the harddrive in question? 5+ years? Cheapo brands sometimes fail + die after a certain time. I personally have very bad experience with Maxtor drives and since then avoid them as far as I can ...