On Saturday 01 March 2008 11:40 am, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > > I got fed up and unplugged the disk. Then my second disk, 80GB one, > stopped being detected. The symptoms it showed were clear. GRUB > errors in the beginning but the system booted up fine after > reconnecting it's ( HD's ) wires. Funny thing is that the 80GB > harddisk was replaced recently because it had failed. I bought the > 500GB HD because I wanted to maintain backups but now they too are > gone and I'm left with nothing!
In my experience never buy the latest high capacity drives. Two sizes smaller - usually abt 1.5 yrs after launch - last very long. So far the ones that are purchased immediately after launch have always failed early. > > I've given the harddisk to my vendor who had supplied the disk and > he has inquired with several data recovery specialists and they say > they'll have to open up the disk. Now my problem is that the disk > is very costly and if they open it up, then the warranty will be > void and I wont be able to buy a new harddisk. > > Can someone help me out here? Try out Philip Tellis' freeze method. check out the disks on another machine. Replace the disk controller board if possible. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
