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Dead Hard Drive
gShooter:
This might be a long shot since you said you checked all the cables (assume you tried replacing them), is that the issue may lie with your MB. Once a drive starts acting up, I usually use an external connection to try to recover/transfer data. It allows you to try more options without having to keep opening up your main machine for each item you try.
BadMouth:
Does the drive show up in your bios?
Longshot, but free to try....... partition magic.
I was trying my hand at a dual-boot system and windows deleted my partitions. :cry:
The drive wouldn't show up until I used partion magic to restore the partitions.
I believe it will also show you if part of the hard drive is corrupt.
chriso:
Another tool to try is RoadKil's RawCopy.
http://www.roadkil.net/listing.php/C2/Disk%20Utilities
It'll copy from an internal to a USB caddy drive and attempt repair as it does it.
It will run within windows or from boot CD/USB stick.
pincky:
I've used the Freezer trick before and it has worked
but use it to extract data via a usb to IDE converter ONLY
I got an IBM Deskstar AKA DeathSTAR 160gb that just crashed on me gonna by a 1TB HD next month
I have a bunch of saved stuff on it I need to pull off of it and the freezer trick works.
Pincky
tommyinajar:
Even if the Freezer (In a ziplock bag, overnight) does work, there is no way in He** you are going to be able to transfer the roms file and other big ones over. The drive will heat up too fast. Just grab your ini and config or HI scores whatever takes time to set up again. I just lost a TB drive out of the blue, but luckily had backups of the important stuff. With the sub $60 price of a 1TB and the cheap usb sata docking stations, back that stuff up !! :)
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