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April 10th, 2009, 3:34
Forum: Conventional hard drives
Topic: Tip: drive refuses to be imaged when connected internally
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Topic: Tip: drive refuses to be imaged when connected internally
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I had a few drives that didn't like to be imaged when connected directly to the controller. To make this more fun, I have an assortment of controllers. The drives would start imaging, hit a bad block, and stop the process. When troubleshooting, that manifests itself as drive starts to scan OK in MHD...
February 2nd, 2009, 0:40
There is another part of Seagate that will help you ;-) http://www.i365.com Anyway, I think I'll disagree with that diagnosis. We normally don't use DDO on modern systems. It was a way for an older BIOS to access newer equipment. The problem for you is that RAID work is always very expensive. If you...
February 1st, 2009, 19:22
I know the storage prices are in an all time low, but their reliability as well! It's ridiculous... So after installing windows, copying my files over and deleting the backups (stupid me), I left uTorrent overnight downloading the latest version of Linux Mint (Felicia, 1.2 GB) I woke up this mornin...
February 1st, 2009, 9:46
Thanks Guys! The drive sat happily doing its job for months and was subject to no shock at all. I can pull a few MB of files off then the head starts to make the clicking sound, so it appears to data is still intact. It reads the file structure and shows all the folders There's no way I can affort ...
February 1st, 2009, 5:30
I have several drives from that series and I wouldn't recommend them. They are my lab rats for experiments. Let me guess, your drive was made in China? Regrettably, there are no end user procedures that you can follow to recover this drive. You are looking at probably electronics repair and potentia...
January 31st, 2009, 15:17
Your data is probably fine, but you need help of a computer consultant. At least they should be cheaper than a data recovery expert. You also may want to read this: http://www.cert.org/blogs/vuls/2008/04/the_dangers_of_windows_autorun.html how to disable the autorun.inf vector of infection. Consider...
January 30th, 2009, 20:05
MacOS + Vista... That's always "fun".
Drives are cheap, please don't share it between the systems. And yes it is failing. If you are lucky, it will let you copy the data without error messages. Make your next purchase something other than a MyBook please.
Drives are cheap, please don't share it between the systems. And yes it is failing. If you are lucky, it will let you copy the data without error messages. Make your next purchase something other than a MyBook please.
January 30th, 2009, 19:45
You answered your question by stipulating "Without using any software". It will not be possible using just built-in utilities shipped with Windows. OK, it is possible, but it will be very complicated. Consider using dedicated backup solutions. If you backup data to the same drive, it's not...
January 28th, 2009, 17:08
You can always pay to get a second opinion. There are a few WD specialists here who can tell you definitively if the drive is salvageable, so you've come to the right place. Don't believe the claim that everything is always recoverable. That statistic is fudged up with easy cases that do not require...
January 28th, 2009, 16:56
On another note: I simply can't read your post, even though I can help. I've tried reading it twice and gave up. Don't capitalize every word, please. It's _extremely_ annoying. Your drive has two issues. 1. Problem with its PCB 2. Probably bad sectors By the way, we never care about the "Why&qu...
January 28th, 2009, 16:27
Your data may be possible to recover. However, we no longer use recovery software under DOS and it hasn't been developed on that platform for a long time. Because your installed Windows, you probably overwrote some data, but other data may still be salvageable. If you want to do it yourself, you wil...
January 25th, 2009, 15:16
You can read the config file from the Linux system partition to figure out how it mounts the file systems. That would be my starting point. The configuration files are in /etc. At least one partition is the root partition, unless the device boots from a flash storage medium. The root partition shoul...
January 25th, 2009, 7:19
"Performance" series of anything is not a good idea. They tend to be more complicated and have tons of platters.
A couple of 7200.7 Seagates of 40GB capacity should be the easiest to prove the concept.
Don't do multiplatter disks.
A couple of 7200.7 Seagates of 40GB capacity should be the easiest to prove the concept.
Don't do multiplatter disks.
January 22nd, 2009, 10:01
No, I've seen my share of 7.01 and 3.CAE drives. At this point, if I confirm I am about to waste time on one of these, I tell a client flat out that they are looking at the maximum possible cost. This is not impact damage. This is drive disintegration under normal use conditions. It is further exasp...
January 22nd, 2009, 1:26
January 21st, 2009, 20:39
Jesse, the drive likely has bad sectors, which makes Windows fail while accessing it. It's still a mild case. You have a choice - attempt to recover it yourself or have one of us help you. In the interest of saving you headaches, we found UFS explorer, @active undelete, r-studio, and getdataback wor...
January 21st, 2009, 18:30
What happens if you try to boot from it in another computer?
Sounds like a hardware problem with your HDD controller on the motherboard. If you truly must have it bootable, I can probably make it happen, or at least prove to you that it boots in my lab.
Sounds like a hardware problem with your HDD controller on the motherboard. If you truly must have it bootable, I can probably make it happen, or at least prove to you that it boots in my lab.
January 19th, 2009, 18:59
Your question is unclear.
Please post details what caused you to be in this situation and what you expect to accomplish. It would be helpful to specify file paths, applications you use to accomplish tasks and so on.
Please post details what caused you to be in this situation and what you expect to accomplish. It would be helpful to specify file paths, applications you use to accomplish tasks and so on.
January 18th, 2009, 6:44
There are several components to a data recovery company. 1. Tools. I think BlackST posted a list in the past. PC3000 UDMA + DE = $15000, PC3000 SCSI (if you are working with SCSI RAIDs where more than one drive failed) + DE = $15000, microscope, oscilloscope, clean room equipment, imaging equipment,...
January 18th, 2009, 5:54
AKA "taken to a pro". 
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