This sounds a little out of my depth. Also, doesn't this kind of activity void the warranty?
I have a Western Digital, which have treated me well over the years ... until now. Hmmm, maybe a switch is due. Thanks, Owen On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 01:35:57PM -0400, James Brigman wrote: > Owen - I've recovered drives with failed electronics before, same as > Mark Shuford describes. I was using Maxtor drives in the 6-9GB range, > and realized the electronics were identical, except that each board had > different "code names" on the solder mask: I think one was "leopard" and > the other was "tiger" or something like that. They were, at one time, > using this convention to distinguish releases of the electronics. > > Anyway: I took the dead 6GB drive, put the board on from a 9GB drive and > was once again able to see the data. I copied the data off, wiped the > original data, then restored the broke electronic board to the failed > Maxtor drive. > > *customer testimonal, not spam* > I exchanged the drive under Maxtor's "advance replacement" program. They > treated me so well that I've stuck with their products ever since (and > have had only that one failure in about 8 years of using their drives. > *end of testimonial* > > JKB > > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 20:32 -0400, 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 > > > > > > -- > 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
