salvaging a dying hard disk

[Curt Tresenriter]

On 7/27/2011 1:10 PM, Ernest Doub wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Juan R. de Silva 
> <juan.r.d.silva at gmail.com <mailto:juan.r.d.silva at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:47:06 -0500, Curt wrote:
>
>     > On 07/27/2011 11:12 AM, compdoc wrote:
>     >>
>     >> >It is an internal drive. However I do have a USB/SATA adapter
>     >>
>     >> >I could try. not sure if that would make a difference or not.
>     >>
>     >> Internal connections are the best way. Leave it as is. Since you've
>     >> booted Ubuntu Live, you have the gnome Disk Manager
>     (palimpsest). Does
>     >> that see the drive?
>     >>
>     >> Does the drive show up in the motherboard bios?
>     >>
>     > Neither disk manager nor BIOS see the drive. BIOS also does not
>     see the
>     > good one, though disk manager does. Both are SATA disks.
>     > The motherboard is an ASUS A7V8X-X. Unlike my newer mobo, the
>     BIOS in
>     > this one does not have a boot option that shows all connected hard
>     > drives, only "CD-ROM", "Removable Device", "IDE Hard Drive" and
>     "Other
>     > boot device".
>     > IDE is showing only "none" and "disabled" for choices.
>
>     I think at this point you should first stop trying it in vain. Every
>     single time you connect you drive and try to mount it increases
>     chances
>     to kill drive completely drastically.
>
>     I am not pretending to be giving you the best advise available.
>     But if I
>     were you, I would try the "put your hard drive in the freezer"
>     trick at
>     this point, with some addition though.
>
>     Freeze it, then connect as internal HD, and then instead of trying to
>     mount it yourself from any LiveCD boot into Clonezilla and let it
>     try to
>     do the job for you.
>
>     If Clonezilla succeeds to mount it you would be able to clone it
>     at once.
>     If Clonezilla would not mount it I doubt you would do a better job
>     yourself.
>
>
>     You need to buy a copy of Spinrite.
>
I have never had to use Spinrite to recover data before and had 
forgotten about it. Unfortunately it doesn't see the disk either.
Time for the freezer treatment.

>
>
>
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