Ian, did you FDISK with the master boot record switch? Going from FAT 32 to
NTFS I would think that the MBR would need to be cleared. PS don't forget
that program I sent you :)

William Pike
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Second-to-last rites for a hard drive?

I seem to have killed a 3\4 year old Western Digital 3gb hard drive and I'm
wondering if there's any way I can resurrect it.

It originally came out of an old FAT32 computer with a wrecked motherboard
and has been working fine ever since inside a 1.1 USB enclosure.

However, in a recent experiment, I reformatted it twice in succession, the
first time as FAT32 and the second time as NTFS.

After the second format it became 'invisible'.  Now it still spins up but
can't be seen at all, not in W98, DOS or in an XP NTFS system.

Spinrite won't recognise it in DOS and neither will any of the Western
Digital utilities.  Should I bury it in the garden or is there some
last-chance process I can try?

TX

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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