ShunNakamura
02-05-2006, 01:53 AM
Alright had a computer brought to me. The person tells me it has had problems for a while now and won't boot anymore. It keeps shooting up a boot disk failure error I am told. I am also told a "now dumping physical memory" message appears at times. There were also some other symptoms mostly pointing to hard drive failure.
Now I know enough to tell the gal right off that it is likely her hard drive is shot. Replacing the Hard Drive is no big deal for me. But I have been trying to recover at least some of her Data. I have done it before from drives that have failed(or at least somewhat failed). However, this little fella is giving me a serious head ache.
I orginally tried to attach it as a slave to my working Hard Drive I put in it. The computer then detects nothing. I have tried multiple settings in her bios as well seeing if her Bios can see them at all. It can't. If I hook it as a slave cd-rom drive, the computer won't detect the hard drive, or the CD-ROM drive. If I leave the drive in alone I can't boot from floppy or CD no matter the boot order or even if the only hardware attached is the floppy, the Hard Drive and her Video(no onboard video). Regardless to say that makes it a bit difficult to do ANYTHING with the drive. And I am not any where near being a data recovery specialist(far far far away from it). Now my question is should I just give up on it(it did not sound like anything real important had been on it, I tried to recover it more out of habit then neccesity) or is there something really silly I overlooked?
I originally tried to use one of those USB External Harddrive things that let you hook an enternal HD up through the USB port. Dad can't find his... and after playing with the HD I don't know if it would really help much anyways.
Edit- I forgot to tell you all this. Yes the jumpers are set right(at least according to the drive and documentation taht I have).
Now I know enough to tell the gal right off that it is likely her hard drive is shot. Replacing the Hard Drive is no big deal for me. But I have been trying to recover at least some of her Data. I have done it before from drives that have failed(or at least somewhat failed). However, this little fella is giving me a serious head ache.
I orginally tried to attach it as a slave to my working Hard Drive I put in it. The computer then detects nothing. I have tried multiple settings in her bios as well seeing if her Bios can see them at all. It can't. If I hook it as a slave cd-rom drive, the computer won't detect the hard drive, or the CD-ROM drive. If I leave the drive in alone I can't boot from floppy or CD no matter the boot order or even if the only hardware attached is the floppy, the Hard Drive and her Video(no onboard video). Regardless to say that makes it a bit difficult to do ANYTHING with the drive. And I am not any where near being a data recovery specialist(far far far away from it). Now my question is should I just give up on it(it did not sound like anything real important had been on it, I tried to recover it more out of habit then neccesity) or is there something really silly I overlooked?
I originally tried to use one of those USB External Harddrive things that let you hook an enternal HD up through the USB port. Dad can't find his... and after playing with the HD I don't know if it would really help much anyways.
Edit- I forgot to tell you all this. Yes the jumpers are set right(at least according to the drive and documentation taht I have).