Hi Clifford!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> I was still struggling with configuring to use the
> FC10 controller when the inevitable happened. A hard drive crapped out on
> me under Windows when, during an unattended scan, the system ran out of
> memory. (On my return it sounded like the heads were being repeatedly
> dashed against the side of the drive. Is that possible?)
Only if it is a HD from WAY back, like 6+ years. SCSI and
ATAPI/IDE HDs have internal logic which will protect them ...
old MFM (and similar) ones might have no protection.
Depending how much your data (and time) is worth, you could try a
data recovery center, they may be able to reconstruct most or all
of the HD's data, but they *are* expensive. Expect something in
the $1000 range, but ask first, I have no idea of their (current)
pricing schemes.
If you decide not to spend the money, you could always use a
low-level sector editor (Norton has some, dd could be useful on
e.g. /dev/hda (not /dev/hda1), ...) if the HD boots up and is
still able to access data. You could try to reconstruct the disk
(via dd) on a big partition or file and try fsck'ing or mounting
it (after making a backup, of course) (in case of the file via
the loop device). However, no guarantees that that won't explode
your CPU or something :-)
-Wolfgang
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