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BIOS won't recognize two of my drives. One is a Maxtor 500gb, other is Seagate 320gb. So naturally, I can't my OS to see it.
I fear these drives might have reached the end of their lives. Anybody know of an inexpensive way to save this data?
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This Cd has a lot of tools to work with hardrives, try searching for the torrents.
Hiren's BootCD 10.5
http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd
Also, may want to low level format?
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when this is all said and done buy yourself a $100 one with 1.5tb's of storage.
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Pop the drives into an external drive enclosure and see if you can retrieve anything.
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Just re-torrent your Lady Gaga collection.
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jwstohr Wrote:Just re-torrent your Lady Gaga collection.
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Drunken_F00l Wrote:Pop the drives into an external drive enclosure and see if you can retrieve anything.
Already tried the enclosure. BIOS still won't recognize the drive. Windows recognizes the enclosure its in, but fails to see the drive after that point
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Try the same thing from a linux boot cd. Also try Hiren's.
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All else fails stick it in a plastic bag in the freezer for a day or two, then try again with the linux boot cd.
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TheDopp Wrote:All else fails stick it in a plastic bag in the freezer for a day or two, then try again with the linux boot cd.
this works sometimes.
also, larger drives seem to fail more often and faster than smaller ones. so snarf's suggestion fucking blows.
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