[TriLUG] Hard drive recovery

[Jason Tower]

bring it by my garage sale tomorrow and we'll give it a shot

Owen Berry wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
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