On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Basil Chupin
On 12/01/13 06:30, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Basil Chupin
wrote: On 11/01/13 17:59, Per Jessen wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
On 11/01/13 01:45, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2013-01-10 07:34, Per Jessen wrote:
> I guess it still under warranty then. At least you'll get a > replacement?
Perhaps.
First I have to replace it on my own and clone it if possible. When that is done I'll see about warranty if available.
Some years ago I bought a new (main) HDD which went belly-up within the month - just went dead. So I took it back for replacement - and walked out of the shop with a replacement.
When I got to my car I realised that I forgot to ask a question from the tech and went back into the shop. The tech and the shop assistant where copying the all the data off my dead drive! Fortunately I didn't have anything personal or confidential on it.
What were those two hdd experts doing in your local shop? Copying data off a dead drive is quite an achievement :-)
No idea how they got the HDD working because when I brought it in the tech put it on one of his machines and the HDD would not spin up which is why I was given a replacement.
One possible way he got it going was as what occurred to a friend of mine in North America whose Maxtor (and my dead HDD was also a Maxtor) died a few months ago and as he couldn't afford to lose the data on it he bought a second-hand circuit board for it for $US35 on the off chance that this would get it working, installed it, and the HDD came back to life (and been running perfectly since).
I've done that a lot since we tend to buy drives in bulk and have similar models readily available. It is also the easiest method the pro recovery shops use.
It works much of the time, but it can be dangerous because some drives maintain servo data (or something like that) on the controller card, so when you change out the controller card it can cause a true non-recoverable disk crash.
So I guess what would be most important is to buy such a replacement board for the exact same model and year of manufacture of the deaded HDD - which, I understand, is what my friend [fortunately] did.
Basil, I'm not expert on this which is why I don't handle drives myself where the data is actually valuable. My understanding is that with certain makes/models there is key info stored on the controller itself that is unique to the drive, so if you swap it out with another controller you risk non-recoverable data loss. I don't think I've even had that happen, but I've only tried this 10 or 20 times. I believe in every case I had another copy of the data, I just did not feel like spending hours making yet another copy. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org