I've had the same problem in the past. Very often if the HD is spinning but not apparently working, it's because of one of two things. a) the operating system not liking your partition or b), your computer is not reconising your caddy. When this happened to me I connected them directly to my motherboard and rebooted but sometimes I had to resort to using Windows built in disk management tool. To find it search the help database for ''computer management'' Click on the link to open it up and then click on Storage and then disk management. There if you see the HD in question then you can bring back online with I think the right click menu. I hope that this works but I'm still using Win XP and I don't know if this will work on later platforms.
Good Luck.
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Originally Posted by todd_cheese
Hey group, ToddCheese here. Gather ye 'round and listen to my tale of woe:
I have a couple of old external hard drives that are filled with lots of files I'm sure people here on OCC would appreciate, even some things I don't believe I've ever seen posted here. I've posted a few things and had been meaning to do more, I swear.
Well, my old computer up and died on me, so I finally got myself a new one, but the old drives used USB 1.1 and the manufacturer no longer supports them. I bought a USB 2.0 external enclosure, pulled the drives out of the old and put them in the new... and now I can't get them to work at all. The drives both make a sound like they're trying to spin up, but the operating system doesn't recognize them.
So my question to everyone is, has anyone else had a hard drive successfully recovered? If so, what company did you go with? And how much did it cost? As money is kind of an issue, and all of the ones I've been able to find seem very expensive ($800 - $3,000 per drive depending on what the exact problem is).
Thanks in advance.
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