They're these little blue trays, the sort of
clip on to the HDD and you can just slide them
in. You still have to open the case, but better than
fiddling with screws. Well I suppose you don't have
to screw your HDD in--I could just lay it in there
temporarily. Anyway, the trays come with older
Dell Dimensions like our E510.
I think the Dell cases are just about as nice as
I've seen, but they're big, they're not ATX, I'm
told the power supply is all wrong--you can't
really re-use them at all.
Anyway, I've done a lot with this HDD--and thanks PMSW
for the DISKPART command. I'm now about 90% sure it
is corrupted too badly to rescue. It was worth a good
try. At one point Easeus partition manager (which did
better than Linux Gparted I hate to say) actually
let me delete, name and (partly) reformat partitions,
but then the drive failed again about 70% into formatting--
disappearing from disk management for good.
The last think I tried was Acronis (add disk). For awhile
it looked like it was going to see the drive, then poof,
an error message came up that said it is not there. It
didn't even struggle on successive tries.
A lot of work for a $35 part. Like a quest, but lame. |
