A friend of mine shipped me his HDD to try and recover the data from
it. It was formatted as NTFS (Windows XP Home). I was able
to mount it up and read a small portion of the data on my desktop via:<br>
<br>
/dev/hdd1
/corey
ntfs
ro
1 0<br>
<br>
The intresting part was that the drive was reading 99% full. In
talking to him, he said that he had no more than 20GB of data total on
it. More of a side note I guess on this.<br>
<br>
So, I manage to pull some of the files he was after off. In the
process I was getting file not found, zero fille data buffer, file type
unknown errors. After I couldn't read the drive anymore, I
powered my system down and removed the drive. I let it cool down
some and put it in the freezer for 20 minutes. I managed to get
more data off than before.<br>
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After about 20 minutes, I wasn't able to read the drive again.
Back in the freezer for another 20 minutes. Back into the
system. On bootup, I started to get a musical type tone from the
harddrive. I was able to read it for about 10 minutes, then it
started in with the musical tones again anytime it was accessed.
Couldn't get anymore data off at that time.<br>
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I've tried a couple of different times to reaccess the drive, both at
room temp and after being in the freezer for 20 minutes. The
drive is completely undetectable on system bootup now, and consistently
replays the tones.<br>
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Is this something that I can try and put a different controller board
on and see if I can access it? Or, is it completely dead now?<br>
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For what it's worth, the drive specs are the following:<br>
<br>
Maxtor<br>
DiamondMax Plus 9<br>
80GB ATA/133<br>
<br>
If a different controller board can be put on this, does someone have a
drive like this laying around, or can I use any controller board?<br>
<br>
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Thanks.<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-Shawn<br><br>-Nemo me impune lacessit. Ne Obliviscaris.. <br>