[TriLUG] Hard drive recovery

[Cristobal Palmer]

Go to jtower's hardware sale tomorrow (Saturday) and get another HD. Your 
wife will appreciate a working computer in the meantime.

-CMP

On 8/26/05, Jason Tower <jason at cerient.net> 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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Cristobal M. Palmer
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