I got a Samsung SP1654N IDE drive in today which at first glance looks like any other IDE hard drive. The biggest head scratch is that when slaved into a secondary system, the system powers up normally, all looks good. On closer inspection of our slaved drive reveals that the disk is not spinning, not even a brrrrr or click. Someone call a external drive data recovery specialist!

The drive came from a external hard drive casing. This was tested and we found it to be faulty as well. We can say that the drive suffered from a intense power spike. This spike has caused damage to the external hard drive casing, the PCB of the hard drive and also the spindle motor of the hard disk drive.