I usually try to boot the computer using Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.net). Sometimes it will mount the drive long enough for me to burn the files to a cd using k3b or copy them to another drive. It doesn't always work but it has bailed me out a few times at work!
On 7/14/05, Bill Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > My hard drive crashed recently and when I start my computer up, my bios > says hard drive fail, no matter which IDE drive I use. This is a Maxtor > hard drive, 3 years old, 80Gb, NTFS, but does not have any operating > system on it. I am running a Windows XP system and I was wondering if > anyone has suggestions on data recovery. Unfortunately, I was stupid > enough not to back up my data over the years and there is some stuff on > there I would like to get off. I tried the freezer trick, but that > didn't really work for me, although it got the drive spinning again. I > am running out of options, any ideas? TIA. > > --Bill > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
