That horrible sinking feeling which takes over when a hard disk fails to fire up as expected might well be cured with the help of a simple external enclosure which costs less than ?30. There must be many companies and individuals who use external drives for backing up data or who have failed computers stuffed full of SATA disks. When such a disaster happens, most people will simply assume that it's the drive itself which is at fault but, before binning these apparently dead hard disks, it's easy to check them out using a powered independent case, such as the Icy Box.
