Thanks to all who commented on my problem with a suddenly unrecognised hard drive.

Many of you seemed to think that variations of FDisk switches or similar applications might do the trick, but I can't see how one can apply ANY treatment to a drive that isn't being seen by the computer in the BIOS or in DOS.

However, I might try Mark's suggestion and try it with a different ribbon on another IDE port with different jumper combinations.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ian 
  Subject: Re: [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.

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