Re: [Nolug] Non-functioning disc drives

Oops, I've got my brain stuck on SCSI.

The same idea could work; other than shipping it off to a data recovery
firm it may be the only thing you can do. Do you have access to a
working system? I've got one I use to recover data from hard drives.
If you're already planning on sending it back to Seagate to get a
replacement, it can't do much worse to try this.

Jonathan

On Friday, October 22, 2004, at 08:55 PM, John Tiedeman wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:26:57 -0500
> Jonathan Schwehm <jonathan@figstreet.com> wrote:
> > You've most likely thought of this, but have you tried to set it up
> in a
> >computer that works as a secondary drive? That way you don't have
> to try
> >to boot from it and if it spins up and doesn't crash you have a good
> >chance of copying the data to the primary hard drive.
> >
> > Kinda crazy how all the drives that were installed in your machine
> are
> >going nuts. Could there be a problem with the SCSI controller?
> >
> > Jonathan
>
> These aren't SCSI drives; they're ATA. Just the act ov moving them
> seems to be destructive!
> >
> > John Tiedeman wrote:
> >
> >> (1) Seagate ST380013A. Bought at BB, still under warranty so I
> took it
> >> there to be checked. They couldn't get it to come up either. If it
> >> would, they would pull data to a DVD for $90, and there is some on
> it
> >> that had never been backed up (mostly saved e-mail) and some that
> hadn't
> >> been backed up as recently as usual. When I try to boot from it, it
> >> hangs at GRUB. I can't get it to take a reload. Is anyone else
> likely to
> >> be able to extract data before I send it back to Seagate for a
> >>replacement?
> >>
> >> (2) WD600. Has been unusable since May, when I bought (1) above to
> >> replace it. Any ideas on trying to get it to do something? It
> doesn't
> >> even get to GRUB.
> >>
> >> (3) ST340016A. Don't remember when bought. Was working until after
> the
> >> above problem with (1) started. Moving it from one computer to
> another
> >> has caused kernel panic in either computer. No data I really need
> here,
> >> but if the disc is repairable I can always use it, if only as a
> spare.
> >>
> >> That leaves me with only a very old 3G drive, loaded with w2k and
> an old
> >> HP OmniBook loaded with w95 to access the internet. The OmniBook,
> of
> >> course, is impossibly slow. I hope that Windows vulerabilities are
> >> reduced to a tolerable level working through a Siemens 5360
> ethernet
> >> bridge, Siemens 2614 router, and Firefox 1.0PR.

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