Amos, It is pretty unlikely that you won't have PATA controllers in your desktop - they will probably be called IDE. (PATA is a term not used often - usually only when people wish to distinguish the drives from SATA)
Martin Regards, Martin [email protected] On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Amos Shapira <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > My wife asked me to re-install her Windows partition and in the > process both PATA drives on her desktop (including both Windows and > Ubunutu) started to give weird errors and can't be accessed any more. > > I tried using sysrescuecd 1.0 and the ubuntu cd in rescue mode but all > give similar errors, on both drives. > > Since it seems highly unlikely to me that both drives became bad at > exactly the same time (they have a few years difference in their age, > different make, model and size) I suspect that the problem is with the > motherboard or ATA controller. > > My own desktop is about 18 months old and I don't see mention of PATA > controllers in its lshw or lspci output. > > Does anyone know where can I borrow (or maybe rent?) a PATA->usb box > to allow me to access the disks and salvage the data from them? > > (and before anyone tells me again - we bought a USB drive this weekend > together with a Windows Vista laptop and will start following Marry's > advise to back things up). > > Thanks, > > --Amos > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
