<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>dear ubuntu community,<br><br></div>thanks for your advice and the help. however i bought a firmware fix kit to fix the firmware problem of the HD. now it works the same as before. my experience of the data recovery for my HD is great.<br>
<br></div>thanks,<br></div>q.s.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Patrick Asselman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iceblink@seti.nl" target="_blank">iceblink@seti.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 2013-08-22 10:58, Colin Law wrote:<br>
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On 21 August 2013 22:44, pete smout <<a href="mailto:psmouty@live.com" target="_blank">psmouty@live.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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On 21/08/13 15:30, Chip wrote:<br>
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My recommendations are as follows.<br>
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Use recovery software +i.e. parted magic) to retrieve all important data.<br>
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Throughly vacum and dust the interior of said machine.<br>
Purchase a new hdd and perform. A fresh install of os.<br>
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Restore salvaged data from step 1.<br>
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Seems like sound advice to me<br>
Never heard of parted magic before will look that one up!<br>
Thanks for the tip<br>
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It is worth trying anything, but it the BIOS cannot see the drive then<br>
I cannot see that there is much hope.<br>
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Colin<br>
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Could it be that (since this is a server) the disk is connected to some fancy RAID hardware, causing the BIOS to not recognise the disk as such?<br>
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There are companies specialised in data salvaging, but they are all very expensive.<br>
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If the problem is electronic, you can try to transplant the electronics from an identical disk on to the failing disk, and see if that fixes it.<br>
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If the problem is magnetic (which is more likely) you can only salvage part of your data with software such as has been metioned earlier in the thread.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Patrick<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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