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On 7/27/2011 1:10 PM, Ernest Doub wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Juan R.
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<div class="h5">On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:47:06 -0500, Curt
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> On 07/27/2011 11:12 AM, compdoc wrote:<br>
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>> >It is an internal drive. However I do have a
USB/SATA adapter<br>
>><br>
>> >I could try. not sure if that would make a
difference or not.<br>
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>> Internal connections are the best way. Leave it
as is. Since you've<br>
>> booted Ubuntu Live, you have the gnome Disk
Manager (palimpsest). Does<br>
>> that see the drive?<br>
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>> Does the drive show up in the motherboard bios?<br>
>><br>
> Neither disk manager nor BIOS see the drive. BIOS
also does not see the<br>
> good one, though disk manager does. Both are SATA
disks.<br>
> The motherboard is an ASUS A7V8X-X. Unlike my newer
mobo, the BIOS in<br>
> this one does not have a boot option that shows all
connected hard<br>
> drives, only "CD-ROM", "Removable Device", "IDE Hard
Drive" and "Other<br>
> boot device".<br>
> IDE is showing only "none" and "disabled" for
choices.<br>
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I think at this point you should first stop trying it in vain.
Every<br>
single time you connect you drive and try to mount it
increases chances<br>
to kill drive completely drastically.<br>
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I am not pretending to be giving you the best advise
available. But if I<br>
were you, I would try the "put your hard drive in the freezer"
trick at<br>
this point, with some addition though.<br>
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Freeze it, then connect as internal HD, and then instead of
trying to<br>
mount it yourself from any LiveCD boot into Clonezilla and let
it try to<br>
do the job for you.<br>
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If Clonezilla succeeds to mount it you would be able to clone
it at once.<br>
If Clonezilla would not mount it I doubt you would do a better
job<br>
yourself.<br>
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You need to buy a copy of Spinrite.<br>
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I have never had to use Spinrite to recover data before and had
forgotten about it. Unfortunately it doesn't see the disk either.<br>
Time for the freezer treatment.<br>
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