Re: Failed hard disk recovery - Help (Mee too!)

["Dan" <dtoma@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

My IBM's 20GB notebook HDD (on a wonderful Compaq EVO N200 subnotebook) was
died last week in a couple of seconds... just some strange noises, the
computer hangs and then, when rebooted ... NOTHING... no disk, no data....
I was using it during a long trip to work on my projects, without any
backup
device.... and now I'm lost...:-((
It sounds pretty normal when powered on, but the BIOS does not recognize it
anymore.
I have tried to replace the PCB with one from a good device, but still
unrecognized by the BIOS and more, his own PCB works ok on another
identical
HDD.

If anyone has any idea on what can I do to recover something ... please
help.
I just need around 200KB from it...some source code.

Thanks,
Dan
P.S. Please don't tell me that is my fault because I have missed the
backup,
I know it very well....

----- Original Message -----
From: <ian.bird@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Failed hard disk recovery - Help


> I did exactly that after a 27gig one packed up within the warranty.
About
> 15 quid to send it to holland and after two months a used serviceable
> replacement arrived back with a short warranty (30 days?).  I think it
> lasted 31 days and I was not stupid enough to put any data on it, just
had
> it in the machine to see it would work.
>
> Pretty crap parts and service from IBM if you ask me.
>
> Ian
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> "Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>
> 19/09/2003 11:17
> Please respond to ukha_d
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>         To:     <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>         cc:
>         Subject:        RE: [ukha_d] Failed hard disk recovery - Help
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>
> 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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