OK, it's sounds like it's failing hard drive, all right, but none of the problems I was having with the old computer were anywhere close to the hard drive.
If it _is_ a failing drive, and as a last resort, <http://www.drivesavers.com/>, though it is important that you do nothing to further compromise the drive.
(I've used them. They are very good at data recovery. They are also expensive, as are all of their viable competitors. I have no commercial connection with them. I'm just a happy customer who was seriously relieved when they recovered an essential drive that died from thermal sticktion.)
My son did flip a jumper on the old drive when he put it in the new computer, though. Any possibility that was a mistake (maybe a _correctable_ mistake)?
At 9:25 pm -0500 11/6/03, Aaron Sherber wrote:
I believe that if the drive were jumpered incorrectly, it wouldn't show up at all. Still, it couldn't hurt to make sure that the drive is jumpered either as slave or as cable select.
My first repair attempt would be to reinstall the drive with the jumper in the original position and see if I could copy all of the files from it (or if it even shows up, or if the computer even boots).
If that doesn't work, or you cannot remember the original position of the jumper, you should be able to look at the information printed on the drive, go to the manufacturer's web site, look up the drive and get a chart of the jumper positions. Once you have that you should follow Aaron's advice and set the drive to either slave or cable select, though I suspect that jumpering it to 'slave' would be the most generic solution.
I would strongly recommend against doing anything that might write to the disk if it is in a fragile condition and you might need to use a data recovery service.
Good luck and best wishes,
-=-Dennis
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