Hard drive posted in a jiffy bag? I'm guessing this is an ebay purchase? No, that's not going to work after the monkeys at the post office have sat on it a few times and kicked it around the sorting floor.
As a shot at elimination, before you give up on it totally, see if you can get hold of a USB external hard drive bay and a different computer to try it in. If that doesn't work, then I'm afraid you may well have an expensive paperweight on your hands.
In some cases, 'dead' hard drives can be revived by reasonably simple methods. I've heard that chilling a drive to below freezing can sometimes kick it back into life. I've also heard that method is BS though, and I've not had a reason to try it myself (thankfully). HDD resurrection
Heh, if mine hadn't had spontaneous resurrection I was going to try it, it couldn't have got worse so nothing to lose...I was almost disappointed it decided to work, but not quite as it had a lot of stuff I needed on it
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As a shot at elimination, before you give up on it totally, see if you can get hold of a USB external hard drive bay and a different computer to try it in. If that doesn't work, then I'm afraid you may well have an expensive paperweight on your hands.
In some cases, 'dead' hard drives can be revived by reasonably simple methods. I've heard that chilling a drive to below freezing can sometimes kick it back into life. I've also heard that method is BS though, and I've not had a reason to try it myself (thankfully).
HDD resurrection
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