On Sunday 06 May 2007, Michael Juntunen wrote: > I have two hard drives. > > The first has suddenly become invisible. I have > booted Knoppix. I have taken the hard drive out of > the system, plugged it into a usb external case, and > plugged it into my laptop (which is running XP but has > been modified to see ext3 file systems). I have run > spinrite. Nothing sees this drive. > > The drive does spinup but for some reason is not > registering as being there. > > Throughout all this the second hard drive mounts as > hdb and both hard drives are set up as cable select. > > Any thought on what I need to do to get this drive > readable again? > > Michael
It wouldn't be totally unusual for the drive electronics to fail while the drive motor still runs. It sounds to me like the drive is just dead. Nothing lasts forever. You might also have a trashed partition table, but only fdisk or sum such will tell you that. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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