[NBLUG/talk] Drive not detected after moving to a new case

hex at neg9.org hex at neg9.org
Sun Jul 19 20:30:47 PDT 2009


Did you trade out anything other than just the case?

At Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:17:02 -0700,
Lincoln Peters wrote:
> 
> I just migrated my parents' custom-built, six-year-old computer from
> an old, gigantic steel tower into a more manageable, aluminum tower.
> Almost everything went perfectly, except for one hard drive
> (containing my mom's home directory) that had a stripped screw
> securing it to the drive bay.  After trying multiple sizes of
> screwdriver, a few different kinds of pliers, and even using a pair of
> wirecutters to try to push it out as I tried to turn it, nothing would
> move it.  Finally, I was able to somehow twist off the head, but the
> shaft was left inside.  The drive itself looked OK, so I thought it
> would be OK; I just wouldn't be able to secure it to the new drive bay
> at that point.
> 
> Well, once I got everything moved to the new tower, I found that
> everything worked EXCEPT for that one hard drive.  When the drive
> controller auto-detects the attached drives, it detects the other
> drive that's attached to it (which contains my dad's home directory),
> but not the drive that had the stripped screw.  I checked that all the
> connections were OK, and I even tried switching the connections on the
> controller (in case it was the controller that was faulty), and it
> still didn't work.  Now, I'm starting to worry that I might have
> accidentally wrecked the drive while trying to remove that screw.
> 
> Any ideas what might have gone wrong?  How I might be able to fix it?
> If the drive is even still usable?
> 
> 
> I think there is a backup of everything that was on that drive, but
> it's over a month old now.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Lincoln Peters
> <anfrind at gmail.com>
> 
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