[SGVLUG] drive recovery

[Stan Slonkosky]

Why would you want to repair it when you can get a new, much higher capacity
SATA drive and interface card for under $100 and repair costs are going to
be many times that? Sometimes drives can be recovered with Spinrite (
spinrite.com) which costs about $90, but that works through the BIOS so it
sounds like it wouldn't work in your case.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 23:22, yoshio <ak209 at lafn.org> wrote:

> I have a WD400BB IDE hard drive (40 gig) that's not recognized by the
> BIOS, it doesn't seem to even spin up.  It was running Ubuntu 10.04,
> I upgraded grub-pc and grub-common, rebooted, then the drive
> suddenly was not recognized by BIOS.  I tried two different computers,
> so it's not the IDE data cable or power connector that's the problem.
> I don't have another drive of the same kind to swap controller boards.
> What else can I try?  Before the problem happened, I looked at the
> log files, there was no hint of any hard drive problems, nor any
> strange sounds.
>
> Where can I send the drive for repairs?  It's formatted as
> ext2 or ext3.
>
> Yoshio
>



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Stan Slonkosky
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