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Just out of interest today I took off the PCB and cleaned all the contacts using surgical spirit. I noticed on the contacts that some of the gold was missing and that it looked a little burnt. After cleaning the contacts on the hard drive and then the PCB, I thought fuck it give it try and low and behold the fucker span up. I proceeded to load windows and it booted into windows and it showed up as E: on the system, when I went to see if the data was still intact the system lost the drive and it disappeared although it was still spinning.
I have a funny feeling that this old system I have it in could be the problem. The power supply is 750 watts but the system is an old P4 3.2 with a sata PCI card connected. Ive been having a lot of problems with the system recently because I think its on its last legs and to be honest its done me proud for 5 years now. Ive just recently bought a quad core dell with proper sata on the motherboard which Im waiting to be delivered early next week, Im gonna install the drive on that system after another clean of the contacts and see what happens hopefully I might get away with it and be able to extract the data I need and then the drive is away for RMA with samsung. I have a feeling that somewhere along the line the power supply has surged through the drive or something because the AGP graphics card keeps reporting when I reboot that the power is not connected. Anyway thanks again guys will let you know what happens when the new system arrives.