[Gllug] OT: Hard drive failure

[David Irvine]

Depending on solar alignment this may or may not work, but you may wish to
tell the bios that it is there, by manually setting the cylinders/heads etc.
then booting up using a bbc or bootdisk or what have you, and see how you
get on, it sounds like its a mechanical failure and it is unlikely this will
work, but just in case, i've had hard disks which have crashed on me and not
been bios detected and with some perseverance you can extract at least some
of the data. Not that you will need to since the world is about to end this
evening when all of the underworld break out from cisco routers and little
crud puppies crawl out of everynt server in the land destined like lemmings
to flood whitehouse.gov with all sorts of wierd stuff.

Ahh nothing like a bit of chaos.


David

"Putting the foo back into foobar."


----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Ball <chris at cpan.org>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] OT: Hard drive failure


> 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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