Data recovery
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itsbob
I bowl overhand
If you ever get to see the internal workings of a hard Drive, and the small stream that has to be read.. how small the arms are and how fast they move, you'd be amazed they last more than a couple of hours..vraiblonde said:Thanks guys! This ticks me off because the computer is only a year and a half old.
itsbob's description is for IDE type drives. Vrai, do you know what kind of drive you have? It is probably IDE or other ATA type drive but at 1 1/2 years could be a SATA. It is unlikely it is SCSI, but that is also a possibility.
It's a SATA. Danzig just stopped by with some handy dandy tools to try and read the data from the stupid drive - no go because he had the equipment for IDE.2ndAmendment said:
So forget about the detailed instructions itbob gave; they are not for SATA.vraiblonde said:It's a SATA. Danzig just stopped by with some handy dandy tools to try and read the data from the stupid drive - no go because he had the equipment for IDE.
What kind of computer?
I was more concerned with the jumpers of master/slave/cable select, but the idea of plugging in the power and data cables do remain the same.itsbob said:
itsbob
I bowl overhand
Been awhile.. no jumpers opn Sata drives? They are individual cable going to each drive..2ndAmendment said:
VRAI if you have SATA, buy two BIG drives and set up RAID.. that way if one of your drives fails again you can have an exact image on the other drive.. you won't miss a thing.. then swap out the bad drive and you're back to having two mirrored drives again..
You can boot from either drive if one goes bad, all programs are installed and can run from either drive.. and when one goes bad, you put a new one in, and it makes a 'copy' so you still have an identical back up.
You never have to worry about backing up your data again.. just timely replacement if one of the drives go bad..
David just picked up my hard drive - he says the data should be able to be pulled.
Cross your fingers.
Bob, what is RAID?
Cross your fingers.
Bob, what is RAID?
Redundantvraiblonde said:
Array
Independent
Disks (Drives)
Probably least expensive and best fit for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
oldman
Lobster Land
Wow, after reading all this my head hurts. I know turn on, turn off and favorites. If it breaks I run to the store, buy another and start all over. My son helped me set up this laptop and he lost me at wireless mouse and USB's. And I have yet to get help in doing something without the person typing faster than superman leaving me four blocks behind from the git-go. I do admire people that understand the workings of computers, but none of them are of my generation. 
Ender
Undercover Geek
oldman said:Wow, after reading all this my head hurts. I know turn on, turn off and favorites. If it breaks I run to the store, buy another and start all over. My son helped me set up this laptop and he lost me at wireless mouse and USB's. And I have yet to get help in doing something without the person typing faster than superman leaving me four blocks behind from the git-go. I do admire people that understand the workings of computers, but none of them are of my generation.
My mentor was up in age when he taught me most of what I still retain. My x86 assembly knowledge is considered ancient, even though I'm not even that old really. You'd be surprised how computer-savvy some people in the older generations can be..they'd probably out-wit any of us here if they teamed up against us..
My bio-Dad got a new lease on life during the Y2K scare because there was a renewed interest in all the dinosaur mainframers.
Don't write the old guys off just quite yet.
Don't write the old guys off just quite yet.
And (holding my breath) David has recovered my data from the dirty disk. 
Larry Gude
Strung Out
Fwiw...
...I called them to come out and get a laptop up and running; told them the hd may need replacing.
$250 plus parts.
I said 'thank you, no.'
RoseRed said:
...I called them to come out and get a laptop up and running; told them the hd may need replacing.
$250 plus parts.
I said 'thank you, no.'
itsbob
I bowl overhand
Was he a Cobol programmer??vraiblonde said:
College I graduated from was one of the last in the country to teach Cobol.. Had all kinds of recruiters looking for people graduating with a Cobol background in the late 90's... Our Information Systems major was based in Cobol.
itsbob
I bowl overhand
There's many ways to do it.. But for the "normal" user, that is the easiest way. Slave it to another drive.BS Gal said:
People that repair computers could have the cabling and software needed and download to a laptop.. or ghost drive it.. etc.. etc..
Cheapest solution for me would be the one I suggested. You're going to buy another HD anyways, so no extra expense.
You might be surprised.oldman said:Wow, after reading all this my head hurts. I know turn on, turn off and favorites. If it breaks I run to the store, buy another and start all over. My son helped me set up this laptop and he lost me at wireless mouse and USB's. And I have yet to get help in doing something without the person typing faster than superman leaving me four blocks behind from the git-go. I do admire people that understand the workings of computers, but none of them are of my generation.
Try using this guy, he has fixed one of my desktops, networked my four computers and restored the stuff that best buy guys had put on a disk. He also made one of my computers with a 500 gig hd that all my computers backup to every night. He did all of this work for 175 bucks plus parts which was like another 125. He also gave me free wireless cards for all of my desktops.
http://mercmonster.com/
http://mercmonster.com/