Hey guys,
bothering you after some throttling through your forum, without much success.

The problem:
Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB 6 months old in a thinkpad laptop. During normal work on Win7, after stalling for a few seconds - blue screen. A restart have stuck at the "welcome" screen of the laptop - can't even enter Bios. Note: inserted another drive in the laptop - works just fine, so it's not a laptop issue.
Prior to the crash the laptop produced several odd noises - very faint high pitch squeaks.

Connected the hdd to another PC - bios doesn't recognize it. Connected the hdd to a Linux machine - nothing.

No odd noises now, no odd smell, hdd spinning.

I would like to avoid 500$(-1000$) "damage" in professional recovery. Is there anything that can be done at home? Any idea what that might be? help?

Thanks a bunch!

Forgot to mention: connected the hdd to an external USB case - same results. HDD spinning but not recognized.

First off, if it's making any unusual sounds (you "mentioned high pitched squeaks") then there could be a mechanical problem. Every time you power the drive on it could quite possibly make the problem 100x worse, or even ruin any chance of recovery. Just putting that information out there. If you're not too worried about making a bad problem worse, and accept the risk, you could try the following:

Post the terminal output to get a better picture of what is actually going on in there.
You can look here for info on how to connect via terminal.
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807- ... 0011-hdds/ (obviously don't do the solution, just read the part on how to connect to terminal)

If the data is high priority then rather take it to a pro, rather than fiddle and possibly make the situation worse.

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