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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