On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:56:38 -0700, "Curious"
wrote:

How old is the drive? Some WD drives have 3 years or longer warrantees?

Warranties aren't made to cover the ass of a stupid mechanic.

"David Halpern" wrote in message
...
Well I certainly appreciate that all of you.

The motherboard is working fine...but the drive is not spinning
from what I can tell.

It is not being detected by the OS at all.

The hard drive is not working in other computers either.




"dhdatarecovery" wrote
in message ...

Actually chances are that by putting in the ram while the computer was
running you either fried the ram or the motherboard, it's not very
likely that you fried the hard drive.
Regarding the Western Digital hard drive- does the hard drive spin up
at all when you connect it? If it spins its much more likely that the
problem is the board on not the motor. When looking to replace a PCB
look for the exact same complete model number (for example
wd800jd-75msa3 and not just any wd800jd). In my experience it's also
best to try to find a PCB from a drive with the closest possible date to
the problematic drive. It's also extremly important to get rid of any
static on your hands before working on the PCB or the drive itself, so
try to touch a metallic object (computer etc.) before working on the
drive.




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I bought it last year 2007.

But I am just interested in the data my documents, emails, and bookmarks
for my book research not really the value of the drive really.


"Curious " wrote in message
...
How old is the drive? Some WD drives have 3 years or longer warrantees?
"David Halpern" wrote in message
. ..
Well I certainly appreciate that all of you.

The motherboard is working fine...but the drive is not spinning
from what I can tell.

It is not being detected by the OS at all.

The hard drive is not working in other computers either.




"dhdatarecovery"
wrote in message
...

Actually chances are that by putting in the ram while the computer was
running you either fried the ram or the motherboard, it's not very
likely that you fried the hard drive.
Regarding the Western Digital hard drive- does the hard drive spin up
at all when you connect it? If it spins its much more likely that the
problem is the board on not the motor. When looking to replace a PCB
look for the exact same complete model number (for example
wd800jd-75msa3 and not just any wd800jd). In my experience it's also
best to try to find a PCB from a drive with the closest possible date to
the problematic drive. It's also extremly important to get rid of any
static on your hands before working on the PCB or the drive itself, so
try to touch a metallic object (computer etc.) before working on the
drive.




--
dhdatarecovery
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"Paul Montgomery" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:56:38 -0700, "Curious"
wrote:

How old is the drive? Some WD drives have 3 years or longer warrantees?

Warranties aren't made to cover the ass of a stupid mechanic.


Thanks lol for your support.

I was up all day and all night and it was 4 AM when
I tried that little RAM trick. So consider the circumstances lol.

D.H.


"David Halpern" wrote in message
m...
Well I certainly appreciate that all of you.

The motherboard is working fine...but the drive is not spinning
from what I can tell.

It is not being detected by the OS at all.

The hard drive is not working in other computers either.




"dhdatarecovery"
wrote
in message ...

Actually chances are that by putting in the ram while the computer was
running you either fried the ram or the motherboard, it's not very
likely that you fried the hard drive.
Regarding the Western Digital hard drive- does the hard drive spin up
at all when you connect it? If it spins its much more likely that the
problem is the board on not the motor. When looking to replace a PCB
look for the exact same complete model number (for example
wd800jd-75msa3 and not just any wd800jd). In my experience it's also
best to try to find a PCB from a drive with the closest possible date
to
the problematic drive. It's also extremly important to get rid of any
static on your hands before working on the PCB or the drive itself, so
try to touch a metallic object (computer etc.) before working on the
drive.




--
dhdatarecovery
Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

If the drive does not "work" on another computer, it's toast!
Data recovery services are your only recourse if you wish to recocer the
files.

The problem with many of the drives and configuration is that they may have
identical internal drive controllers, but, because the drive is not exactly
idential--((different number of heads, different mapped tracks by the OEM,
etc., swapping them usually will not work. We used to be able to do this,
and use an OEM drive model specific low level utility to marry the drive and
the controller card. Usually, some or all of the data on the drive was lost.



"David Halpern" wrote in message
. ..
I bought it last year 2007.

But I am just interested in the data my documents, emails, and bookmarks
for my book research not really the value of the drive really.


"Curious " wrote in message
...
How old is the drive? Some WD drives have 3 years or longer warrantees?
"David Halpern" wrote in message
. ..
Well I certainly appreciate that all of you.

The motherboard is working fine...but the drive is not spinning
from what I can tell.

It is not being detected by the OS at all.

The hard drive is not working in other computers either.




"dhdatarecovery"
wrote in message
...

Actually chances are that by putting in the ram while the computer was
running you either fried the ram or the motherboard, it's not very
likely that you fried the hard drive.
Regarding the Western Digital hard drive- does the hard drive spin up
at all when you connect it? If it spins its much more likely that the
problem is the board on not the motor. When looking to replace a PCB
look for the exact same complete model number (for example
wd800jd-75msa3 and not just any wd800jd). In my experience it's also
best to try to find a PCB from a drive with the closest possible date
to
the problematic drive. It's also extremly important to get rid of any
static on your hands before working on the PCB or the drive itself, so
try to touch a metallic object (computer etc.) before working on the
drive.




--
dhdatarecovery
Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com