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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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.
I was a commando you know.
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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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Justin Bieber is betterOriginally Posted by jwstohr
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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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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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