Why would you want to repair it when you can get a new, much higher capacity SATA drive and interface card for under $100 and repair costs are going to be many times that? Sometimes drives can be recovered with Spinrite (<a href="http://spinrite.com">spinrite.com</a>) which costs about $90, but that works through the BIOS so it sounds like it wouldn't work in your case.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 23:22, yoshio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ak209@lafn.org">ak209@lafn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I have a WD400BB IDE hard drive (40 gig) that's not recognized by the<br>
BIOS, it doesn't seem to even spin up. It was running Ubuntu 10.04,<br>
I upgraded grub-pc and grub-common, rebooted, then the drive<br>
suddenly was not recognized by BIOS. I tried two different computers,<br>
so it's not the IDE data cable or power connector that's the problem.<br>
I don't have another drive of the same kind to swap controller boards.<br>
What else can I try? Before the problem happened, I looked at the<br>
log files, there was no hint of any hard drive problems, nor any<br>
strange sounds.<br>
<br>
Where can I send the drive for repairs? It's formatted as<br>
ext2 or ext3.<br>
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Yoshio<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Stan Slonkosky<br><br>