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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  Ian,

  Is it possible that this came from an OS/2 system? If it did you would have to obtain OS/2 Warp installation diskettes and that should get you into the drive. It sounds like you have a non-dos partition. Have you run "auto detect" in your BIOS setup to see if the proper drive parameters and size are being reported?

  Luck,

  Jeff

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