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jwstohr - Jun 09, 2010
Half-Duplex Wrote:calculon Wrote:R-Studio NTFS works really well. Saved my ass twice and well worth the $50 if you're out of options/desperate.
Will this recover a drive that has locked itself into a failsafe mode?
Here's my situation: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1050374/seagate-barracudas-7200-11-failing
Quote:A new self-bricking feature apparently resides in faulty firmware microcode which will rear its ugly head sometime at boot detection. Essentially the drive will be working as normal for a while, then - out of the blue - it'll brick itself to death. The next time you reboot your computer the drive will simply lock itself up as a failsafe and won't be detected by the BIOS. In other words, there's power, spin-up, but no detection to enable booting.
If lady gaga is really that important you could try buying the exact same drive and replacing the controller board.
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Butane - Jun 09, 2010
Just ignore snarf, he is clueless. Anyhow; knoppix live is wat i use to test my hardware and can be booted from a cd/dvd or flash drive. and is avalible free via dl:
http://www.knoppix.net/
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Half-Duplex - Jun 09, 2010
LoL, thanks Butane. But I don't think Knoppix will detect my drive even if I boot of a live cd. The BIOS isn't even recognizing it. Ugh...I'm so upset at myself for not backing my data up. Guess I'll try that freezer myth...
/wrist.
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supercommierussian - Jun 12, 2010
Just curious. What DATA did you have? Some spy stuff?
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Half-Duplex - Jun 14, 2010
supercommierussian Wrote:Just curious. What DATA did you have? Some spy stuff?
My HDD contained the intel.