Re: Disc recovery
- From: Matt Giwer <jull43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:52:21 -0400
joseph m cipale wrote:
Moe Trin wrote:On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<evs4cf013mv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, joecipale wrote:
Sorry for the newsgroup spam, but I am in a bit of a pickle.None the less, it would be well to set a "Followup-To:" header as I have
done here.
I lost my primary HDD last night before my weekly backup. It just lockedWonderful. Had the drive _been_ running and died? Or is this a case
up... hard. When I attemtped to reboot, all I got was the sickening
'clunk...clunk... clunk' which told me I was in deep doodoo.
where you booted, and the drive failed for some reason? Can you tell
if the drive is spinning? (Could this be a "stiction" problem?) What
kind of drive (make/model)?
Is there a way I can recover my data that was lost? I thought I couldOntrack disk recovery www.ontrack.com/ www.ontrack.de/ www.ontrack.co.uk/ do a google search, and get thousands of hits.
just add/reinstall my OS on my new HDD, reinstall my old clunky HDD,
mount it and then copy the data to a recovery directory before sending
the old drive off to silicon heaven.
That trick doesnt seem to work.
Warning: NOT CHEAPAny suggestions? You can email me directly.Post here - read here. Sorry, mail has been off for years.
Actually, I had booted up and was looking at my primary desktop and trying to google a page on solving an SQL problem. SUddenly, my xload graph shot up over 10 bars(?) then the screen ( and workstation) simply wedged. I had to perfrom the ultimate 3-finger salute and power the workstation back up. At that point... the clunking began. It is one of those sickening sounds you hear and the only thing that comes to mind if s 'Oh f***'
The HDD was a Western Digital Caviar 40GB IDE. What was even more distrurbing is that I had a secondary drive I used for storage and Samba shared access to my wife's W2K box. It died as well. No.. nothing wrong with the power supply or the mother board. Both decided they wanted to leave this earthly realm together.
There is no such thing as coincidence. Two drives do not die at the same time by chance, period, unless your are google and have a hundred thousand of them.
How do you know there is nothing wrong with the chips that interface with the drives on the motherboard? I know of no way to know that without taking them out and running them through the manufacturers test rig. I presume you did not do that. "Everything else works" does not answer the mail. You know something as simple as a single gate failure on a single chip can cause this problem.
And another strange bit of info. Had a computer once which clicked intermittently a long time ago. After four hours of rebooting and slowing pulling data off on 3 1/4 floppies the clicking stopped and the computer continued to work. So clearly that was some sort of MB fault that time and either temperature or humidity or both cause and fixed.
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