If you can find another of the same drive (you did say it was only a few months old) you can try a little surgery...
Get the PC board off the new drive and put it on the broken one. If it's a electronics problem, rather than physical or corrupted meta-data, this may revive it for a bit to get your data. Then collect on the warranty so's you'll have the two drives. I've fixed a couple of drives like this in the past. No guarantee... and some chance that it could MUNG what's there already if the PC board starts writing to the drive... which I don't see a good reason for, but I must still give the warning. Probably not for the faint-of-heart. If the meta-data is hosed then the course is a data-recovery service or deep digging yourself (if you have the tools and are up for it). mds On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:22:37 -0400 Owen Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that's what's happening. They're on different channels, and I > tried a few mixtures of jumper settings, but no luck. > > I'm keen to give the PCI controller a try, but I'll have to get my > hands on one. Maybe now is the time to go for RAID with 2 hard drives. > Only problem is a lack of funds. This drive is only a few months old! > Should be under warranty at least. > > In the mean time, anybody know of good/reasonably affordable data > recovery services in the area, that might have a better go at it? I'd > have to weigh cost against data, but there are some photos of my 7 > month old son that hadn't made it to a backup yet that I wouldn't mind > getting back. I see Intrex advertises that they do some data recovery. > Any idea how good an option they would be? Any location a better > choice? > > I guess this has become OT, but it did kind of start off as a Knoppix > question. Apologies to those who mind. > > -- Owen > > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 20:36 -0400, Jason Tower wrote: > > a hosed hdd can interfere with other ide devices, i've seen this > > kind of behavior before. make sure they're not on the same channel, > > and be sure to try different jumper settings. if that fails try > > using a pci ide controller for the hdd. if that doesn't work you're > > probably sol. > > > > jason > > > > Owen Berry wrote: > > > This morning my wife's computer crashed, the hard drive started > > > making clicking noises, and, when rebooted would get past the BIOS > > > startup and then stop with a flashing cursor in the top left hand > > > corner of the screen. The only good sign is that the BIOS detects > > > the hard drive. > > > > > > Seems pretty bad. My first thought was to try to recover whatever > > > possible using Knoppix. Tried booting off the CD, but all I got > > > was the flashing cursor. Went into the BIOS and double checked > > > that the CD drive came before the hard drive in terms of startup > > > devices - it was. To be sure, I changed all 3 options to be the CD > > > drive. Still the same result. > > > > > > I tried unplugging the hard drive and then booting off Knoppix, > > > and everything worked fine. Any ideas what I could be missing > > > here? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -- Owen > > > > > > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- Mark Shuford -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
