"Keith G" wrote in message


Having just posted (at length) about buying a PVR to use
with a 'spare' 300 GB HDD in an external USB box that I
have here, I have *walked through* its sodding power lead
and sent it flying! Now it (the HDD itself) goes like
this when I switch it on:
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Hard%20Disk.mp3

..and the computer doesn't see it.

It *is* fuct isn't it....??

Good call.

(Never heard an HDD make a noise before!!)

For all the world, it sounds like it has a speaker.

Any clues, before I start pounding it against a wall to
*reactivate* it..??

I'd try pounding it on the sidewalk outside. You might damage your house's
wall or floor.