On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 20:53, Ryan Bowman wrote: > I use my laptop for everything. I have a desktop machine at home > that sits there all day feeling lonely because if it's lucky I use it > once a month for 12 seconds or so. It is mainly used as a home for > data that doesn't fit on my laptop drive, or that I use rarely. > Yesterday I went to use it and it was dead. I tried to start it, and > after several agonizing minutes of waiting for it to detect the hard > drive it gave me the model number properly and said 'Capable, but > Disabled' and it would not move. Trying to go into the bios setup was > unsuccessfull until I unpluged the drive. So, what do I do to > determine if the drive is still good? Or to fix it and make it good? > I have a lot of data stored on there that I'd like to get back. It's > a new-ish drive, < year old I think, rarely used, as I said, and I > hate to admit it, but it's primary partition is NTFS. Any help is as > always, greatly appreciated.
The first thing to try is the diagnostic tools from the manufacturer. They will almost always help you find out what's really wrong. What is this "Capable, but Disabled" bit? Is it just talking about UDMA modes? ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
