RE: Failed hard disk recovery - Help

["Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>]

Oh dear, another IBM piece of crap bites the dust. I've lost 3 out of
the 4 I mistakenly bought 2 years ago.

I don't think there is anything you can do yourself, but there is a list
member here who does data recovery, Calum Morrell.

Don't forget to send the piece of crap back for a replacement too if it
is within the three year warranty. I believe IBM support is now through
Hitachi. Of course I have never dared to put the replacement disks in
anything, but it is important from a principal point of view to get
something back.

Graham

-----Original Message-----
From: biggles299 [mailto:charles@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 19 September 2003 10:56
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Failed hard disk recovery - Help


My IBM 75GXP hard disk has given up the ghost. Does anyone have any
personal recommendations for a data recovery house. There seem to be
plenty out there but I would be interested in any feedback from the
group.
Any suggestions for recovery solutions I can try myself would be
gratefully received.
It looks like the disk cannot find it's boot record.

Symptoms are
Bios can detect the drive.
Drive makes a Tsk tsk tsk sound on boot
Bios reports HDD error
Running IBM drive fitness test gives failure code 0x72 Smart Failure.

So far I have tried:
Manually setting the bios
Another machine
Run as master, run as slave drive

Thanks in advance

Charles




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