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

[Lincoln Peters]

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>