hot-swapping HDDs (pata not sata)

cathodraytube · #1 (**permalink**) October 22nd, 2005

OK i have a problem with a HDD ...i was moving/backing up large files back and forth from one comp to another getting redy to clean install my older HP insted of using its "recovery" feature.

i was just hot swapping the drives and connected/disconnected the drive from bothe computers like 5 times without any problems but now the drive quit working... it was working fine, i shut down the computer (the HP) and disconnected the drive and went to plug it into my new comp to get the last fiew drivers etc from it and to re partition/format it. when i went to plug it in again , it dident do anything , it dosent even spin up, it worked fine a second ago but now its compleatley dead and wont work oreven spin up in ether computer...

i was grounding myself each time i moved it and dident touch the bored on the bottom and i have no idia whats wrong...or why it quit working...

i was hot plugging the drive ...is this safe and if not is that what killed it?? or is it a mystery?

like i sead ,the drive is getting power...but it wont spin up on ether computer and the one small chip on it gets verry hot , too hot to touch...

why did my drive quit working all of the sudden??

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