is hard drive dead

[Hank_Marvin]

hi, building a pc for someone

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=326&name=Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2 NVIDIA GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i Chipset (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=768&name=Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (0A33435)

will give rest of spec if needed.


all put together, boots fine (no error beeps etc) , in bios is doesnt detect the drive, run windows vista setup and it doesnt detect drive , i put all drivers for the mobo on a usb drive to load drivers from in vista setup but doesnt find any required.

used normal sata power cable direct from psu and a 4pin molex to sata power cable with both same result.

used different sata port.

bios recognises sata dvd/cd-rw drive

updated bios and retried the above, still no good

if i touch HD after being on its stone cold, can't feel any vibrations.

is the HD dead? im thinking so as its got power to it so surely should get warm or hot?

any clues or straight answer would be great.

cheers

 

[Mattus]

Not being able to feel any vibrations whilst the drive is running, in addition to it not being picked up in the BIOS, would certainly point to it being dead on arrival.

 

[ANDARIAL]

Are the sata power and molex power connectors on the same loom(bunch of cables from psu)?Have you/can you try different psu to rule out that?
But it does sound D.O.A.

 

[Hank_Marvin]

well i im gonna put the hd in my pc and see if it is recognised there then we will know i think