[SGVLUG] Harddrive Recovery Firms

[Claude Felizardo]

IIRC, Spinrite will not recognize drives via USB.  I'm guessing you
only have the one ATA/IDE port in the laptop so you'll have to use
another computer which means you'll need an ATA/IDE to laptop drive
adapter (can't remember what it's called).   Did you try running fdisk
in non interactive mode?

Oh, according to wikipedia, there's a newer version that can read USB
drives and it can run via CDROM.  It's been quite a while since I've
used it so i must have used a really old version.  The article also
mentions a few alternatives you might want to investigate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinrite

claude



On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:36 PM, BlankReg <BlankReg at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I would just try spinrite first. If you think the system can see the drive
>  at all use that first. Then spend the big money.
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>  It is not even being detected by the BIOS anymore.  Physically, I can
>  hear the drive spinning, but I can not hear the read/write head move.
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> Interestingly enough sfdisk does give me something.
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> If I read this right, the electronics on the hard drive seems to be
>  working right, or at least as far as the kernel can see it does.
>  However, it can not see the platters, or the data on the platters.