On Saturday 01 March 2008 11:40 am, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
I got fed up and unplugged the disk. Then my second disk, 80GB one, stopped being detected. The symptoms it showed were clear. GRUB errors in the beginning but the system booted up fine after reconnecting it's ( HD's ) wires. Funny thing is that the 80GB harddisk was replaced recently because it had failed. I bought the 500GB HD because I wanted to maintain backups but now they too are gone and I'm left with nothing!
In my experience never buy the latest high capacity drives. Two sizes smaller - usually abt 1.5 yrs after launch - last very long. So far the ones that are purchased immediately after launch have always failed early.
I've given the harddisk to my vendor who had supplied the disk and he has inquired with several data recovery specialists and they say they'll have to open up the disk. Now my problem is that the disk is very costly and if they open it up, then the warranty will be void and I wont be able to buy a new harddisk.
Can someone help me out here?
Try out Philip Tellis' freeze method. check out the disks on another machine. Replace the disk controller board if possible.