Meat Plow said:
Care to share where you read that? Apparently I've been in error all these
years thinking this data was written to an engineering track.
Hi Meat - how's it going ? HDDs are funny things. I had my 20GB data drive
fail the other day. One minute it was fine, next I couldn't access it. Very
odd too (well I think anyway) that it is spinning ok, and the BIOS correctly
'sees' it, and correctly reports its model, size, cluster size and so on,
but when you boot Windoze, a message regarding failure of the secondary
slave HD flashes up - so quickly, of course, that you just can't quite read
it properly. Windoze doesn't see it at all - it just doesn't appear in the
drive management screen, so you can't even attempt to force it to a manual
mount. Just for sport I tried it in another machine running '2000 rather
than XP, and again, BIOS sees it fine, but not the OS. I suppose I could
have tried in DOS, but by then, I had lost interest and replaced it with a
250GB drive which cost less than a good meal out, and restored it contents
from the external backup drive that I maintain (there's a lesson for the OP
to learn there, methinks ...) I've still got the drive, and have a friend
who makes a (very good !!) living from disc data recovery, so I might let
him have a look one of these days when I'm passing his shop, just out of
curiosity.
Just as a matter of interest, as well as the "Well just how much is your
lost data worth, sir ?" angle of his business, he has also invested a
considerable amount of money in the software and hardware to do the job, and
sometimes, recovering the data can be very labour-intensive. Probably
doesn't *justify* the large amounts of money that he can (and does) charge
for the service, but might go some way to mitigating his rates ...
Arfa
