if data is critical, send it to a recovery service.

then if drive is under warranty, get a new one


my experince

after "Drive D: is unwritable, data may be lost" message and a nice blue
screen, i knew i was in trouble

had a Compaq 18Gb scsi ultra drive go up in smoke, literally. my system is
open frame, can see everything!

one chip gave out a hissing plume of nasty acrid smoke and and a nice tiny
hole where it came from.

no spin,no nothing after that!

i had an exact model that was a spare that did everything except id. so i
swapped the controller board (4 screws,easy!)

from power on until i recvd minor error msgs complaining about unable to
write to the disk everything worked fine.

i could not write to the drive, but i was able to completely READ it !!

found some DVDs and started to tediously offload. at least i had the
contents back.

you may have blown an onboard fuse, or other, but most really "dead" drives
are really "dead" beyond use. spindle motor could be crapped too.

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Hi all,

I have a Western Digital WD800 80 GB drive. I am not sure why the
drive will not power up. Here are the specs on the drive:

LBA 156301488
80.0GB

MDL: WD800JB - 00FMA0
DATE: 21 APR 2004
DCM: HSBANAJAB

What would I need to be able to fix this drive? Do I know an "exact"
drive to be able to fix it? Is there anything else I could try that
might bring the drive back? Please any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks

Jasiu