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Saving a HDD - Half-Duplex - Jun 06, 2010
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?
Saving a HDD - supercommierussian - Jun 06, 2010
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?
Saving a HDD - Snarf - Jun 06, 2010
when this is all said and done buy yourself a $100 one with 1.5tb's of storage.
Saving a HDD - Drunken F00l - Jun 06, 2010
Pop the drives into an external drive enclosure and see if you can retrieve anything.
Saving a HDD - jwstohr - Jun 06, 2010
Just re-torrent your Lady Gaga collection.
Saving a HDD - jaypeaem - Jun 06, 2010
jwstohr Wrote:Just re-torrent your Lady Gaga collection.
Justin Bieber is better
Saving a HDD - Half-Duplex - Jun 07, 2010
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
Saving a HDD - Drunken F00l - Jun 07, 2010
Try the same thing from a linux boot cd. Also try Hiren's.
Saving a HDD - TheDopp - Jun 08, 2010
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.
Saving a HDD - WombRaider - Jun 08, 2010
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.