bring it by my garage sale tomorrow and we'll give it a shot
Owen Berry wrote:
I think that's what's happening. They're on different channels, and I
tried a few mixtures of jumper settings, but no luck.
I'm keen to give the PCI controller a try, but I'll have to get my hands
on one. Maybe now is the time to go for RAID with 2 hard drives. Only
problem is a lack of funds. This drive is only a few months old! Should
be under warranty at least.
In the mean time, anybody know of good/reasonably affordable data
recovery services in the area, that might have a better go at it? I'd
have to weigh cost against data, but there are some photos of my 7 month
old son that hadn't made it to a backup yet that I wouldn't mind getting
back. I see Intrex advertises that they do some data recovery. Any idea
how good an option they would be? Any location a better choice?
I guess this has become OT, but it did kind of start off as a Knoppix
question. Apologies to those who mind.
-- Owen
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 20:36 -0400, Jason Tower wrote:
a hosed hdd can interfere with other ide devices, i've seen this kind of
behavior before. make sure they're not on the same channel, and be sure
to try different jumper settings. if that fails try using a pci ide
controller for the hdd. if that doesn't work you're probably sol.
jason
Owen Berry wrote:
This morning my wife's computer crashed, the hard drive started making
clicking noises, and, when rebooted would get past the BIOS startup and
then stop with a flashing cursor in the top left hand corner of the
screen. The only good sign is that the BIOS detects the hard drive.
Seems pretty bad. My first thought was to try to recover whatever
possible using Knoppix. Tried booting off the CD, but all I got was the
flashing cursor. Went into the BIOS and double checked that the CD drive
came before the hard drive in terms of startup devices - it was. To be
sure, I changed all 3 options to be the CD drive. Still the same result.
I tried unplugging the hard drive and then booting off Knoppix, and
everything worked fine. Any ideas what I could be missing here?
Thanks.
-- Owen
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