[nylug-talk] hard drive failure

[phantom21@mindspring.com]

I use Drive Savers.  Its a little expensive and the cost will depend on how 
much data there is on the drive and how long it takes them to recover it, but 
they're generally excellent at recovering data.

I have an account with them and get a discount for my clients when I send 
something in..  If you're interested, contact me off line.

Mark


On Tuesday 22 August 2006 08:32, Paul Robbins wrote:
> Yeah, that seems to be what is happening.  Well now that it is likely a bad
> drive, is there any place that you recommend to go to try and have the data
> pulled off the drive?  I know that some places like Geek Squad will try,
> but with it being ext3, I am sure they will think it is trashed even if
> they get it working.
>
> On 8/22/06, mylar <micros50 at computer.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 11:26, Paul Robbins wrote:
> > > I had a Linux box with a 7GB master disk and a 80G slave drive.  Over
> >
> > the
> >
> > > weekend, I tried to access something off the slave drive and it showed
> > > nothing on the disk. I tried to unmount it, but got an error.  After
> >
> > some
> >
> > > other attempts to mount or unmount the drive, i decided to reboot to
> > > see
> >
> > if
> >
> > > it would get re-initialized on boot.  Instead, when it came back up, it
> > > tried to boot off of the NIC card, ignoring both of the hard drives.
> >
> > When I
> >
> > > would disconnect the slave drive from the cable, the system would boot
> >
> > from
> >
> > > the master drive without a problem.  I also tried to boot using Knoppix
> >
> > to
> >
> > > see if the drive would be recognized that way, but it was not.  I have
> >
> > DVD
> >
> > > backups of the critical files, but I don't want to lose a drive if the
> >
> > is
> >
> > > an easy solution.  Generally, the Knoppix option works for me to at
> >
> > least
> >
> > > pull off the data I need from a bad drive, but I haven't seen it fail
> > > to
> >
> > be
> >
> > > recognized at all. Is this a sign of no power getting to the drive? Any
> >
> > help
> >
> > > or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > I have had incidents where hard drives "failed" because power wasn't
> > getting to the drive. In particular a Dell machine which was
> > intermittent. I thought the drive was  failing but it was an
> > intermittent power problem.i.e. flimsy loose connector. If  you have a
> > free unused Molex connector in the machine try swapping it and see what
> > happens. Otherwise it sounds like a bad drive.  If it's an ide type
> > drive and it's bad it can often cause the other device on the
> > controller  to malfunction until the offending device is removed.
> >
> > mylar
> >
> >
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