Re: [Nolug] Non-functioning disc drives

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:19:12 -0500
  Jonathan Schwehm <jonathan@figstreet.com> wrote:
> 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
  
I only have one desktop system running, and that on w2k with an old 3GB
disc. I have a LinuxCare business card CD that might help, but I can't get
either system to boot from CD currently (they used to). I bought a 20GB disc
on eBay but it will take a few days to get here, but I plan to load Fedora
on it as soon as it arrived (provided I can get either system to cooperate
and read from CD).

> 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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