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Originally Posted by Zweiblumen
I can verify that the freezer thing works but it should be your last resort. If this method is attempted the first thing should be to copy the critical data off since the drive will fail when it warms up and in my experiance it's a ONE SHOT deal.
But it may not bee this bad, the "please insert ...." message may be caused by bad/corrupted MBR that can be fixed for example with the /MBR switch on fdisk (depends on OS version) or the data on the drive can be accessed from a diffrent computer (or LiveCD boot etc.
Best of luck, just don't rush into anything
Zweiblumen
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While I agree that in many cases the message "please insert..." can be attributed to bad MBR, The main board doesn't even confirm that the drive even EXISTS, so even F-disk wouldnt be an option. I have accepted that the drive is toast, I was just curious if anyone had ever tried to swap out a controller to recover a drive. I try to keep things backed up, but as is many the case, I had been lax of late, and was actually working on getting everything backed up anyway the night before, but had only gotten the system settings and all backed up. Oh well. chalk another up to a drive that I shouldnt have bought in the first place. I have heard that since Maxtor got bought out their drive quality has gone downhill.