Jeff, I'm wondering if the cause of the hard drive failure is due to something else like the power supply, because there are two hard drives in the machine and they are both failing. Of course, it may also be something on the motherboard like the IDE controller. The first thing I did was pop in the ultimate boot cd (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) and run memtest86 for a half an hour. The memory seems fine to me.
This gives me a few ideas of how to pin point the problem: * try to copy data off the drives on the secondary IDE * try to copy data off the drives in a different computer * run surface scans on the drives in the original and a different computer * find an old hard drive that I know works and put it in my friend's computer * put drives in freezer overnight and mount them upside-down Thanks, Grant On 11/12/05, Jeff Shippen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like the hard drive failure is the probable crash of windows. > As for recovering, I would say grab what you can, there is little > hope for those with read/write errors, as they are most likely > corrupted... > > Advice: be carefull when plugging things into his system, my friend > had a pc whose power supply worked, but not completely, every hard > drive he plugged into it was killed. > > --------- > Grant Kelly wrote: > My friend brought over a crashed windows box and wants me to see if i > can recover any files from the hard drives. I got them mounted in > knoppix and was able to copy some files to a network share, but after > a while, there are a lot of read/write errors and cp fails. > > Does anyone know a better way to recover files off of a failing hard > drive in knoppix (or any other live CD)? > > Thanks, > Grant > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
