where are you in syd anyway.
I might have a doohickey you could use for a short period.
Amos Shapira wrote:
Hi Martin,
I just opened my desktop and indeed there are no PATA controllers
there. That's why I mentioned that it is 18 months old.
I use the term "PATA" for exactly the reason you mentioned - to
distinguish from "SATA".
Thanks, and apologies for top-posting due to limitations of my current
email client.
Amos
On 12/30/08, Martin Visser <[email protected]> wrote:
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
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