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Help: Maxtor Shared Storage Crashed, need new Boot Sector
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My 500GB Maxtor Shared Storage drive died after only 6 months. Maxtor's solution is to just swap it over. This of course does not recover my data. Another problem is the data on the disc will be available to be recovered by other parties. Instructions I found at http://www.openmss.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=491 indicate that if I can get a standard windows boot sector onto the drive I will be able to recover the data from the reiserfs Linux partition. I can edit/replace the boot sector but my skills/knowledge gets lost when it comes to creating the partition parameters in the boot sector. If you have a boot sector I can use or can create one for me from the instructions I will be most thankful. Below are some screen shots that may assist in creating the sector. If you need any more information or can help you can email me at . Thanks for any help you can offer, Iain |
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Help: Maxtor Shared Storage Crashed, need new Boot Sector
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc IKD wrote:
Hi, My 500GB Maxtor Shared Storage drive died after only 6 months. Extrenal Maxtors are known to be a) heat sensitive b) badly cooled c) die young. Don't buy them. Maxtor's solution is to just swap it over. This of course does not recover my data. As they told you before in their sales terms. Another problem is the data on the disc will be available to be recovered by other parties. True. Maxtor claims to blank the disks, but can you really rely on that? Instructions I found at http://www.openmss.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=491 indicate that if I can get a standard windows boot sector onto the drive I will be able to recover the data from the reiserfs Linux partition. If the drive is dead, this will not be possible. I can edit/replace the boot sector but my skills/knowledge gets lost when it comes to creating the partition parameters in the boot sector. If you have a boot sector I can use or can create one for me from the instructions I will be most thankful. Below are some screen shots that may assist in creating the sector. If you need any more information or can help you can email me at . Thanks for any help you can offer, If the drive is dead, the only thing you can do to get the data back is pay for professional recovery. It will cost several times the price of a new drive. As to warranty replacement, you should not bother. The replacement woll be the same engineered-to-die trash as the first one. But that does solve the problem of recovery of your data by others: Just physically destroy the drive. Arno |
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