[Gllug] OT: Hard drive failure

[Chris Ball]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 06:11:19PM -0400, ChrisJS at aol.com wrote:
> On bootup, it makes choking noises and slight beeping and isn't recognised
> as being there by BIOS. When this kind of thing happens, is there any
> chance of the contents being intact and recoverable ?

Sure, though not the Maxtor support way. If the drive isn't spinning up,
it's a mechanical rather than a media failure. The data's still there,
but the electronics that read from it are down. It would be an idea, if
you can, to purchase another identical Maxtor drive. Swap the controller
boards over, see if it boots. If it does, copy the data across to the
new drive, send the old one back and get a replacement from Maxtor.

Maxtor will replace it for you, but they won't save the data. Afaik.

~C.

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