salvaging a dying hard disk

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>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 bios might not show the drive in the usual place if you have the sata
controller set to AHCI, rather than Native Sata or IDE emulation. 

 

That's normal, although the bios should still see the drives enough to allow
you to choose which one to boot from.

 

Ubuntu has drivers for all the modes you can select, including AHCI, so if
the drive is missing it may well be dead. But you should check the data and
power cables to the drive. 

 

Just because its spinning doesn't mean it can be read.

 

 

>There are some utilities that run on Windows.

 

Doesn't really matter which OS you use, however the Ubuntu utils that you
have been running are just as good and reliable.

 

 

 

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