Re: Data recovery from crashed S-ATA drive?

From: :: Ole C :: (olecl-news_at_start.no)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:05:42 GMT

Thanks for all the response. Some pretty interesting methods of recovering
data I must say. I especially liked the one where you stick the drive in the
freezer. But I found another solution to the problem which thank God worked.
I thought since the drive was able to boot a little bit and some programs
like Seatools recognized the partitioninfo, it had to be some way of
deleting or repairing whatever data on the disk that was malfunctioning.

So I thought how about good old fdisk? And sure enough fdisk recognized the
partition on the drive (GetDataBack and Restorer2000 did not...) Once inside
fdisk I deleted the partition which contained XP, since it merely contained
the OS and no crucial files. I now tried to reboot using the other drive
with XP installed, but the drive was not able to start when the bad disk was
connected. So then I tried hot swapping it again inside XP. And voila!!!!
There the crucial partiotion was! Clear as crystal! And maaaaaaaaaaan am I
in a good mood!

Thx
Ole C
~ Time to make some good backup routines....

":: Ole C ::" <olecl-news@start.no> skrev i melding
news:X5BJd.378$4c.44871@juliett.dax.net...
> Hi there.
>
> Finally it was my turn to experience the ultimate harddrive crash. The one
> were you were just about to make that big backup with six months work when
> it hit you hardest. The drive starts clicking and everything freezes. I am
> able to boot from the disk, but it halts shortly after the Win XP logo
> pops. So now I cannot seem to recover any files from the drive. The drive
> is by the way a Seagate 80GB (ST380013AS), partition in two with XP on one
> partition. The critical data on the other.
>
> So far I've tried the following:
>
> * XP cd repair. Never comes past scanning the drive
> * Reinnstalling XP. Never comes past scanning the drive
> * The drive as slave and another drive with xp. Never boots. Not even with
> just command prompt.
> * Hot swapping the drive with XP loaded and running GetDataBack or
> Restorer2000 Professional. Finds the drive but scanning only returns 1117
> I/O Error.
> * Using Seatools. All OK except when trying to read File Structure. Then
> it halts completely.
> * And theres nothing wrong with the S-ATA controller as an identical drive
> works super.
>
> As I have no clue and not nearly enough money to let some professionals
> handle the problem, I feel I'm quite stuck in the shitter right now...
>
> Regards from
> Ole C.
>