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Hard disk help urgently required plz read .......plz .....
I'd try a low-level format on the drive first. A low-level formatter should
be available from IBM, or now, Hitachi. ~ Adrian ~ |
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ok grabed the dft.exe from IBM will try that tonight , hopefully can get
this working again ... Cheers for the help ... -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Are you still wasting your time with spam?... There is a solution!" Protected by GIANT Company's Spam Inspector The most powerful anti-spam software available. http://www.giantcompany.com "Adrian" wrote in message ... I'd try a low-level format on the drive first. A low-level formatter should be available from IBM, or now, Hitachi. ~ Adrian ~ |
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I have successfully brought a HD back to life by sealing it in a
plastic bag and placing it in the freezer overnight. I know it sounds strange, but I had a laptop drive that simply would not boot. Gave a "disk controller error". After freezing, the drive booted fine and I was able to get all the data off of it. To my surprise, the drive continued to work after it warmed up. However, I replaced it. My data is worth more than using a suspect drive. "hammer" bad_company'ala'barrysworld.com wrote: Ok, I have ran fdisk to partition IBM deskstar 40gb drive all goes ok , reboot then partitions are lost. drive used to work. Then one day all partitions where lost. Is this drive DEAD or can i repair it . Have tried this to no avail: fdisk/mbr fdisk re-partitioning ( goes ok but doesn't hold partitions) used diskpather but has error reading disk, can see old data but was only demo version so limited functions) partionmagic from Windows XP , get error on start up . Tried installing Linux (mandrake 9.1 and redhat 7) to see if they could partition drive, they failed. any ideas would be gratefully recieved or do i just bin it, have new drive now , but just wanted to see if i can salavage the drive. cheers all Jamie -- |
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G. Richard Stidger wrote:
I have successfully brought a HD back to life by sealing it in a plastic bag and placing it in the freezer overnight. I know it sounds strange, but I had a laptop drive that simply would not boot. Gave a "disk controller error". After freezing, the drive booted fine and I was able to get all the data off of it. To my surprise, the drive continued to work after it warmed up. However, I replaced it. My data is worth more than using a suspect drive. Where in the world did you hear to do something like that? -- Usenet is a strange reality where you see people beating up a patch of grass where nine years ago there used to be a horse. -Nuke |
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Yes, I've heard of people doing that and apparently, it can work. Put it in
the freezer next to the frozen fish. ~ Adrian ~ |
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On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 23:44:47 GMT, Cyde Weys
wrote: G. Richard Stidger wrote: I have successfully brought a HD back to life by sealing it in a plastic bag and placing it in the freezer overnight. I know it sounds strange, but I had a laptop drive that simply would not boot. Gave a "disk controller error". After freezing, the drive booted fine and I was able to get all the data off of it. To my surprise, the drive continued to work after it warmed up. However, I replaced it. My data is worth more than using a suspect drive. Where in the world did you hear to do something like that? http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%2...DD+AND+Freezer Dave |
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I forget who told me, but it was a friend who knew someone whose HD
was revived by a computer tech using the freezer method. I thought it was a real stretch, but I had nothing to lose. Rich Cyde Weys wrote: G. Richard Stidger wrote: I have successfully brought a HD back to life by sealing it in a plastic bag and placing it in the freezer overnight. Where in the world did you hear to do something like that? |
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"Adrian" wrote in message ... : I'd try a low-level format on the drive first. A low-level formatter should : be available from IBM, or now, Hitachi. : : ~ Adrian ~ : : Adrian, unless the drive is MFM or some such there's no such thing as low level format anymore. Hasn't been for years gone the way of the 5 1/4 floppy. cheers claus |
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