NF7 BIG trouble

[KaitouAce]

So I took my NF7, which I've had for about 4 months, and put it into a new case/power supply setup with the same drives (2 hdds, 2 disc drives, 1 fdd) and had an issue where if you bumped the machine, video would disappear. seemd like a short, so i thought maybe somehow the board was connecting to the mounting plate, even though it was thoroughly studded.

well i loosened the studs and the system booted regularly, but then suddenly my secondary hdd, the one with all my files, started making a clicking noise... and no longer boots. both my hdds are Seagate, and this one was the 2nd in line of IDE (1) and 2nd in line of power source.

i guess it got zapped and i'm really, really upset, but if anyone has found ANY way to get a drive like that to boot even ONCE, i will take ANY advice. My hdd is in the freezer right now, and i'm desperate because that hdd has my wife's schoolwork, our wedding photos and the photos of our child's birth on it, along with all my media...

if anyone knows anything about this, please respond. thanks.

nf7 v2.0
amd xp 2700+
(p) 80GB Seagate Baracuda
(s) 160GB Seagate Baracuda [dead]
LiteOn DVD and DVD+/-RW DL

[NiGHTS]

Have you tried prayer? :(

In all seriousness though if anyone can fix it, its these guys. I hope that you do recover a bit of the data on that drive, as I'm sure the sentimental value of it cannot be replaced. I apologize if I'm driving the stake further. ;)

[Geeky1]

what brand and size power supply?

[LawnMM]

Plug it in as a second drive on another machine. If it works at all, which it probably does, you can still browse it and copy files over. Though it may not be stable enough to make the copy...thats your best bet.

[KaitouAce]

the Old was VPower 300W
the new power supply is Xblade 450W
god, i hope this works... i'll try it on a friends pc. i have another pc, but it's not LBA 48-bit. does anyone know what would happen to the data past 137GB if i put it into a non-48? i was afraid that if it tries to write to the drive, it'd scramble it, and a tech thought so too.

[GrayFox]

Xblade = pos there more like a 200W tops we got a Xblade 600W on the shelve @ co-op no way it puts out more then 350W its light and has small heatsinks

[Justin]

If you can plug it into a working system, and it spins up, you should have no issues accessing it. Just make sure it is an XP machine, assuming it came from an Xp machine originally. Post back with status!!!

[mmonnin]

If its the second drive with just data on it, it wont matter what machine it will go into since its not the boot drive.

You might want to try another cable. Maybe take the Optical drives out and put the HDD on that cable to test it out.

Also try the manufactures HDD utility. Here is the seagate download page.
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html

[bothered]

Xblade = pos there more like a 200W tops we got a Xblade 600W on the shelve @ co-op no way it puts out more then 350W its light and has small heatsinks

I don't know anything about these PSUs but weight has nothing to do with it. It could be a switched mode power supply. That weighs a fraction of one with a transformer.

[Geeky1]

Bothered: ALL computer power supplies are switching power supplies. At least every PSU made in the past 15 years. And yes, weight is a relatively decent indicator for power supply quality in computers.

[bothered]

OK, I stand corrected. I've had some very heavy ones and some very light ones, I assumed the light ones were switched mode, I mean I never opened them or anything.
Cheers geeky.