| Lorien 2005-04-06, 2:29 pm |
| Have you tried installing the 60GB drive as a master in a different system
(or even in the same system just to see how it's perceived by BIOS or disk
admin)? I mean, why not try swapping it with the 120GB drive just to see
how it's perceived by the system? If it shows up as a 60GB drive, then I'd
suggest there's something in the BIOS that's preventing you from viewing the
full slave drive (or the two drives could be incompatible despite both being
from WD). If nothing else, you could take that opportunity to backup the
files you wanted to keep.
Hard to believe the drive would crap out on you after only a couple of
weeks - but it certainly could be hosed. I'd say the data is still there
(be optimistic), you just need to be patient to find a way to get to it.
The reason I say this is because the system is reading the drive as SO much
different than it really is - and yet it's still seeing the drive. Perhaps
you should consider trying a new IDE cable (or changing the sequencing) in
case the problem is there. There may also be something wrong with the
controller, so if you can switch controllers you might want to give that a
try as well.
If worse comes to worse, there are companies that specialize in recovering
lost data from disk drives - I'm pretty sure they could fix your problem
(and perhaps even fix the drive if it's broken in the process).
"SBFan2000" <webmaster@glenngriffith.com> wrote in message
news:41e878a2$1_1@127.0.0.1...
> Had a 120 gig and a 60gig (both WD) on a single raid controller. Has
> worked
> for serveral weeks but today the computer would freeze when booting. The
> detection of raid devices screen listed both drives but listed the 60gig
> as
> 0MB and in PIO 5 mode. Knew this wasn't right so I disconnected the drive
> and all was back to normal. Placed the drive on the slave IDE controller
> and now it reports in disk administration that it is a healthy 8gig drive
> that needs formated. Is this drive toast? Is there anything I can do to
> get info off of it. It was my backup drive and mostly is expendable but I
> had some music I had downloaded back in the free napster days and music I
> had downloaded from napster about 6 months ago.
>
> Glenn
>
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