Re: undetected drive

Eamonn Saunders wrote:
> Hi,
>   First off allow me to ask for forgiveness in advance if the following 
> questions are dumb...I'm new to this area and I'm stuck.

<snip part where you describe making sure it's the drive and not your host>

> So...my questions are...
>
> 1. Are there techniques that I am not aware of whereby a disk can be 
> made "non detectable"?
> 2. Does anybody have any other suggestions as to how I might access the 
> data on this disk?
It's entirely possible the drive's blown chunks.  While I've personally 
had good luck with Maxtor's, they don't have the most solid reputation 
for quality in the industry.  You may be looking at an actual hardware 
failure rather than part of the exercise.

It may be possible to swap out the 'controller' section of the drive and 
recover it that way - assuming the platters are intact.  How's your 
hardware foo?

It's -possible- to recover data from the raw platters, but it's an 
expensive and time consuming process.  Given what you've said about this 
exercise, I doubt you'd want to go that route.

Do the folks you got the drive from have any comments?

> Thanks in advance.
>
> Eamonn

Cheers, and good luck
L4J