a challenge for you....

[shell26]

When i right click the drive, the pc freezes. It doesnt give me the dropdown to select properties.

[patio]

More info is needed.

[shell26]

I wanted to put my faulty disk into my daughters pc to try and get my data back. There was no slot for an extra hd so i took the cd drive out and put the faulty drive in there. The pc booted up (very slowly).
I then went to the "my computer" screen and it showed the faulty drive as "d drive" with an icon of a hd. I right clicked the icon and the computer froze. The "my computer" screen stopped responding.
I tried this several times. I cannot access the faulty drive.

[patio]

Make sure it is jumpered as slave...you will need to unplug the power and ribbon cable to check this.

[shell26]

Jumpers were in correct  position, i double checked. Have given up now. 

[patio]

We hate giving up here...until all hope is gone.

Travel Here for another method to try...

Kudos to GX1_Man.

[Dam1an]

If the HDD is not responding even when slaved, it's most likely a physical problem inside the HDD. 

Sorry, but there's not much that can be done for that. 

If even one tiny chip develops on one of the disks inside your HDD, the little arm that reads the info on it will catch it and make the chip bigger, and the peices will move and catch other places causing scratches and more chips etc etc. 

Its a tough way to go, but it pretty much eats itself alive with every rotation of the disks.

[patio]

How has it been determined that one of his platters inside a sealed unit is damaged ? ?

[Dam1an]

How has it been determined that one of his platters inside a sealed unit is damaged ? ?

In the first line.

If the HDD is not responding even when slaved, it's most likely a physical problem inside the HDD.   

It had already been established that he has slaved the drive, using the proper jumper settings. 

  Jumpers were in correct  position, i double checked. Have given up now. 
 

Barring a bad cable,  the HDD is prolly just crapped out.  The example i gave is just an example of a common physical problem that can occur in a HDD.  Could be the controller card on the bottom, but then the drive is usually not recognized at all.

[patio]

In the first line of what ? ?

[Dam1an]

  In the first line of what ? ?

My post.

I'm really not looking for a pissing contest here.  It was an example of a physical problem.  It may be something else, but either way it's beyond simple data errors if it doesn not even get recognized.  Maybe a pin is broke on the IDE plug, but unless this guy is an advanced electronics repairer it's a dead drive.

Do the specifics that we'll never get our hands on really matter that much?

[shell26]

Thanks for all your help. Tried your suggestion Patio but pc keeps trying to boot from the faulty drive and then pc restarts itself. It wont boot from the cd i made.  Decided to let it go now and learn from the experience. Hoping to get a new pc altogether in few days and the first thing i will be doing is backing up my data. 
Thanks again to everyone.