Hard drive identity problems (Score 2, Interesting)

This seems like something that would take an excorsism to fix, but I have an 80GB drive that was in a server running windows 2000 (not my first choice, mind you, the new server is a Fedora core 1 box) that experianced an undue amount of heat and has proven to be a pain to revive. On one attempt the drive claims 800 GB in size and another it claims an 8 MB size, however I was once able to mount one of the partitions through Linux (alot of good it did, turns out all I recovered was a useless windows 2000 system partition). Has anyone seen this kind of error before, and if so would freezing the drive help, or is it without hope?