[TriLUG] Hard drive recovery

[Owen Berry]

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
> > 
> >