David, On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, David wrote:
I have swapped the IDE cables and both channels are enabled in the bios. I guess I will spend the money and buy a pci ide controller. I thought I had one but I must have thrown it out. Another quick question. Data recovery from a NTFS formatted drive.
It sounded like you had literally swapped your primary for your secondary IDE cables, which is a good step, but it's possibe that Bill's suggestion turned on you completely exchanging both cables for another pair. I've been bitten on the butt by dying IDE cabling lately (possibly just inferior cabling exacerbating a dying controller, I suppose), and that could be worthwhile if it's not what you've already done.
For recovery? Boot from your favorite Knoppix disk (if you're comfortable with the command-line, skip all the overhead of running X by typing 'knoppix 2' at the boot prompt). You should be able to mount local AND removable HDs, USB thumb drives, etc. that way. If your only method for getting data off is over a network, you can use 'scp' or 'tar -cvf - directory_or_file | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat > archivename.tar"'. Make sure you can SSH into "anotherbox" with a password, though.
Hope this helps, -sth sam hooker|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|http://www.noiseplant.com|(802)324-0500 "The Sun is far away." "About ninety-three million miles away; and that's why it looks so small." They Might Be Giants "The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas"
