| ??? 09/20/05 13:29 Read: times Msg Score: +1 +1 Informative |
#101265 - Good luck. Responding to: ???'s previous message |
The drives normally have servo tracks or servo information embedded in the formatting. Once this is lost, the drive can't calibrate itself - thus the head seeking. Its normally more than just reformatting the boot track, and there is probably software that will do it through the PC, but the drive is obviously reporting that it has problems, so the BIOS is not recognising it.
If you can find another identical drive, you can swap the circuit board to eliminate that as a problem. Beyond that, I'd be facing towards Mecca. |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Maxtor HDD Crash :( | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| STOP immediately! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| these things teaches a good lesson... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Backup backup backup | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Scheduler provided by the OS | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Only half the story | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| True | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| on backup (and restore) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Good luck. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Thanks | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Mecca | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| why MCU? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I'll try it | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| seen a small light in the dark | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| 'PowerMax' Log file | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ..but for the grace of (deity of choice) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Heat problems? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| That works some time | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| magnetic flux | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| you said your data been overwriten | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The effect of cooling can also be that a | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
I didn't said that for sure | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Reliability | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I said this because of | 01/01/70 00:00 |