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Hard disk does not show in BIOS. Extract data from HDD?
My IBM harddrive does no longer show up in BIOS after I added another
hdd. My system. Faulty hdd: Ibm Deskstar 40gb, no: IC35L040AVER07-0 It still spinns. IDE 0 = Win2k (Master), CD-ROM (Slave) IDE 1 = Failed HDD (master), HDD (Slave) I have tried: Different hdd on flat cable - it worked. Changed flat cable - all works except on failed hdd tried short 40cm, long 80cm cable - worked on all other devices. changed power cable - all works. Tried to switch the failed hdd as slave on IDE 0 and 1 - no show in BIOS. It worked perfectly before I added a new hdd on the other IDE cable, so it shouldn't be affected at all. I have heard something about a MBR, master boot record, which could be deleted, could that be the one? How do I fix it? If the hdd has failed, how do I recover info from it using software when it is not recognised? Have heard about Disk Investigator but haven't tried it yet. Is there any other software I can test and maybe get it to work? http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/dskinv.html "Discover what's hidden on your computer hard disk and recover lost data. Disk Investigator bypasses your operating system so you can directly see the contents of your hard drive: raw drive sectors, files, clusters, and directories. This is helpful if you want to verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. It's also quite useful if you need to recover previously deleted files." Thanx for all help - I'll pray (not to be confused with pay) for you if I get it to work Kanolsen |
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"Kanolsen" kanolsen AT mail¤REMOVE¤ dot dk wrote in message ... My IBM harddrive does no longer show up in BIOS after I added another hdd. My system. Faulty hdd: Ibm Deskstar 40gb, no: IC35L040AVER07-0 It still spinns. IDE 0 = Win2k (Master), CD-ROM (Slave) IDE 1 = Failed HDD (master), HDD (Slave) I have tried: Different hdd on flat cable - it worked. Changed flat cable - all works except on failed hdd tried short 40cm, long 80cm cable - worked on all other devices. changed power cable - all works. Tried to switch the failed hdd as slave on IDE 0 and 1 - no show in BIOS. It worked perfectly before I added a new hdd on the other IDE cable, so it shouldn't be affected at all. I have heard something about a MBR, master boot record, which could be deleted, could that be the one? How do I fix it? If the hdd has failed, how do I recover info from it using software when it is not recognised? Have heard about Disk Investigator but haven't tried it yet. Is there any other software I can test and maybe get it to work? http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/dskinv.html "Discover what's hidden on your computer hard disk and recover lost data. Disk Investigator bypasses your operating system so you can directly see the contents of your hard drive: raw drive sectors, files, clusters, and directories. This is helpful if you want to verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. It's also quite useful if you need to recover previously deleted files." Thanx for all help - I'll pray (not to be confused with pay) for you if I get it to work Kanolsen If the BIOS won't see it, FDISK won't see it. You can forget about the /MBR switch for FDISK. I'm thinking it might be a Master/Slave issue. I didn't see it in your note, but did you try the failed drive on a cable by itself? Some drives, when by themselves on a cable, must not have a MS/SL/CS jumper in order for the BIOS to find it. Try it standalone and unjumpered. Have you tried setting the drives to CS (cable select)? And, if the BIOS still doesn't report the drive, try switching the drives (still with the CS jumper setting) on the cable. If after all that the BIOS still doesn't see the drive, say a couple of Hail Mary's and pitch the drive - the controller board is toasted. There used to be an ISA card on the market ages ago that was sometimes found in a geek's toolbox that would completely ignore the BIOS and get you access to a troublesome drive. I can't, for the life of me, remember what it was called and couldn't even speculate whether such a card is even available today for PCI slots. |
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