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Hard Drive Recovery Tip From: Daniel F.
Get an identical Hard Drive and swap out the Logic Unit (Electronic Board). Set your CMOS to auto-detect. You're good to go!!!
Hard Drive Recovery Tip From: Miles H.
- Check cables are on and are the correct way round.
- Check jumpers to ensure the disk has the correct setting (depending on otherisks or CD-ROM used on the same controller, if any).
- Check Bios setting for Model of PC is current. Download latest version if necessary.
- Boot from DOS floppy, use FDISK to check if disk can be seen. If the disk is there, then I would suggest using GHOST or similar to copy the image from disk to disk.
- If the disk was not apparently running, I would swap the disk out and install it into a PC that was working.
- The options here would be to have the 'faulty' disk as the master or slave depending on your situation.
- If installed and works as master, ghost the image to the network.
- If installed as slave, boot the PC and use ghost to copy from disk to disk or to Network.
- If disk was still in a state of absolute failure, I would suggest contacting the disk manufacturer to ask their advice.
- They may have some low-level disk checking/repairing software.
- I would also install a new disk into the original PC with O/S on and ask the user to ensure all data is put onto the network (if possible).
- If all else fails, then you'd have to chalk it up as experience and hopefully someone would learn to ensure sufficient backup procedure were implemented.
- Therefore, the next time this happened it would not matter. You would be able to reinstall the O/S and Applications (manually or automate) and restore data back to the user (if held locally).
Hard Drive Recovery Tip From: Lawrence Shipinski
Easy, go to Maxtor's Web site or Seagate Web site and download the utility software. It's free. Please back up whatever you can first!
