All the post are relevant to the problem. Indeed try another one of the
power connections and a new IDE cable to see if the drive will respond. The
freezer idea has been know to work but again, how valuable is the data on
the drive?? Seen folk remove and reinstall the pcb onto the drive and have
some positive results but it sounds as if the problem is internal, probably
in the head positioning mechanism. Agreed, do you indeed hear the drive
"spin up" when applying power to it? Physical thumping has been used, that
is having the drive connected and lightly tapping on it or rotating it while
holding it to see if you can "kick start" the rotating motor. Again, how
valuable is your data, the best cure may be to send it to one of the data
recovery compaanies to recover the information for you.
"Odie Ferrous" wrote in message
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Jim Bancroft wrote:

I have a 13 GB Western Digital IDE hard drive, manufactured in 2000.
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www.retrodata.co.uk

Not "big bucks."

Odie
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