Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 02:03:08 -0600 From: "Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Dead HD - any way to get data off before send back?
This is non-Libretto related, but you guys seem like you might know the solution...
I have a 30Gig Maxtor 3.5" HD that died about a month ago. It was originally the boot drive in the current system, formatted FAT32 running Win2K. I suspected the controller board on the drive died, so I did an Advance RMA with Maxtor, hoping I'd get the same model, so I could swap the boards to try to recover my data before wiping the drive and sending it back.
The new drive is the same model. My suspicion was correct, as the following will show.
Old drive - A
Old drive controller board - a
New drive - B New drive controller board - b
Put Aa in any system, in any position - BIOS and Win2K do not see it, nor does an ATA card.
Put Ba in any system, in any position - - BIOS and Win2K do not see it, nor does an ATA card.
Put Bb in any system - BIOS sees it, Win2K sees it, BUT sees it unformatted (it should, new drive, not formatted yet)
Put Ab in any system - BIOS sees it, Win2K sees it, BUT sees it unformatted (it should NOT, it has data on it)
So my question is, is there ANY other way to test Ab to see if I can pull the old data from the FAT32 partition, or at least prove beyond a doubt that the partition is gone, gone, gone? Can I boot a Linux floppy and somehow access the data?
If so, will I need to put another good drive in the system, boot to Linux, and copy the entire Ab contents to it?
And if so, can someone send me an executable to create such a Linux boot floppy, with anything necessary in the image to access the drive? I am NOT Linux literate yet. I have a spare new drive I can format under Win2K or Linux to copy the data to.
I only have about 1 more week before I need to send the dead drive back to avoid having my creditcard charged, so I'm somewhat under the gun. While I'll live if I can't recover the data, there is 6 months worth of email and bookmarks on that drive that I'd REALLY like to save.
-- Tom Stangl *http://www.vfaq.com/ *DSM Visual FAQ home *http://www.vfaq.com/Prius/ *Prius Visual FAQ Home
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