Bad HD, not seen in Bios? OPTIONS???

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I have a Maxtor HD under warranty but will lose the data. The best
price I got so far started at $400 for data recovery, YIKES!

Anyway, it won't power up, would use the maxtor diagnostics but as I
said since it doesn't power up it is NOT seen in the bios, so that
option is out.

Also if I place it as a slave, it blocks the MASTER drive from being
seen also. I have checked/swapped the power cable, IDE cable etc, and
still, it is not seen.

Anyone have a suggestion???

I'm thinking some tech guru here would know how to maybe swap out the
circuit board or something. Not sure what the problem is.

Thanks

 

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Gidday,
i am presumeing that it did work, because you say it has data on it,
what happened between it working, then not working?
power spike? brutality?
$400 seems to be a bit expencive even by kiwi standards,
tell us more,
villin

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