salvaging a dying hard disk

[Ernest Doub]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Juan R. de Silva <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.
>
Just Google it.   It might seem pricey  but is IMHO the best chance for
salvaging a failing/failed drive.
Works at a very low level as it installs its own DOS from the CD onto your
computer.  I've used it to save data off of several failing drives and
recover portions of other drives that had been blocked by power failures or
windoze blowing up.
Develop a plan for your recovery efforts before you try anything more as
every attempt to work with it just brings you closer to the ultimate
failure.
On the freezer trick.  Set the thermostat as low as it will go and give it
at least 72 hours to get the temperature as low as it will go.  Once you put
the drive in don't open the door until you are ready to work with it as each
opening raises the temperature inside the box.

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