Very unhappy

[NozSpark]

Andy,,

I tried the software you linked to in your clicky and it doesn't even find the physical drive

Any ideas??

 

[Andy™]

download file scavenger - this will find the drive (if the drive doesnt have a letter it will show 'disk #, ( x GB)'

its a free download/trial and will show you all files, but you cant recover them. let me know if this does find the files

 

[NozSpark]

Doesn't even find the drive, never mind the files....

Having tried the software fixes, I'm now going to try swapping the primary and secondary slaves over... see what happens!!

 

[Robojin]

Andy,,I tried the software you linked to in your clicky and it doesn't even find the physical drive

Any ideas??

Possibly the fault is with the controller board, if you can find on fleabay someone selling the same drive you may get away with swapping boards, although the bad sector map will differ you may get access to the drive, but don't write to the drive for obvious reasons

 

[spinlondon]

If the hard drive has stopped turning, then it won't show up as a drive.

 

[DarkInferno]

I used to do some data recovery, put an advert up at the local uni, be half decent at it and the money soon comes in. (software only)

The price of recovery depends on what it wrong, if its a physical issue (the heads are knackered/ its not spinning up, the drive electronics are burnt out, etc) your looking at a few grand for recovery, it its just a data issue (destroyed sector, damaged index, etc) Its a lot less.

I assume its pata, (as it is a slave) is it still coming up with drive fail press f1 when you boot?

if so try another channel, but I suspect it won't work... if you still get that message it means its a hardware failure and there is nothing that you can do to fix it unless you fancy coughing up a few grand. (you can try swapping the boards over that works occasionally)

if your not getting that message then you can try software, a good start is spinrite.

For future reference, Raid 5 owns your soul, however raid 5 cards aren't cheap,

 

[NozSpark]

Just tried it as a secondary drive, and guess what.....

still doesn't work

It's a 7 year old Maxtor Diamond Plus 8 - 30GB (ATA 133)

 

[Andy™]

what does file scavenger have listed under 'location' menu?

 

[NozSpark]

I can't remember exactly, but something like

HDD # 1 (112GB)

C (112GB)

so it only found my C drive!

 

[Andy™]

thats not good!

 

[NozSpark]

I guess that all our photos are gone then

But I'm going to drop the HDD into a local computer shop to see if they can do anything with it.....PrayPrayPrayPrayPray

Hopefully it won't cost too much

 

[Apache]

1 TB for

 

[NozSpark]

Hopefully I might have a backup of some of our photos,,, but TBH I've not done it for the last couple of years,,,

although I have got over 300 photos on my camera!

 

[Andy™]

does the drive show when you first start computer?

do you have an external USB hard drive case you could put it into?

 

[NozSpark]

It does show in the drive list, but then I get..

"Primary save disk fault"

and "Press F1 to continue...."

Unfortunately I don't have a USB caddy for it, but I did try it as a Secondary drive (different ribbon cable) - with only the 2 HDD's connected...... It still failed

 

[Andy™]

doesnt sound good.

tried the old percussive maintenance?!

 

[NozSpark]

[quote name='Andy

 

[DarkInferno]

it's borked... you might as well give it a smack... or freeze it.

Do or die time (escape from Colditz the board game)

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

it's borked... you might as well give it a smack... or freeze it.Do or die time (escape from Colditz the board game)

Applaud Smiley]

But if you do shake a double you get a second turn!!!

Just make sure you start from inside the courtyard please My Inferno...

Or I shall come and run you over with the "Staff Car"



Now there's a classic!!! :^O I taught my eldest how to play this a couple of years back..

Only this afternoon he said can we have another game over Christmas hols!!!

Blushing:xROTFWL

 

[bob]

contact these people

http://www.retrodata.co.uk/

http://www.retrodata.co.uk/good_bad_ugly.php - an interesting read

http://datarecoverylab.co.uk/

*i have no connection with these companies, just found them in google

bob