[KLUG Members] Any way to read this disk?

[Rusty Yonkers]

The only thing I could recommend is to put the drive back in the
original computer and then boot to MandrakeMove and see if you can
mount the drive then copy data to another place.  I was able to do
that with a system where the drive was basically dead.  I could see
it with MandrakeMove and then burn the data to a cd.  I then replaced
the drive.  This drive was sooo toast that I could not even fdisk it
or format it but MandrakeMove could see it.


--- Jamie McCarthy <jamie@mccarthy.vg> wrote:
> It's not working and dd_rescue isn't able to read anything either.
> Anyone know if there's any way to force spin-up of an IDE drive?
> I know it should spin up when I try to access it, but I'm not sure
> it's doing so, and I'd like to try forcing the issue.  (hdparm has
> options to set spin-down time but nothing to spin a drive up
> directly.)
> 
> I know the drive's probably dead, but... :(
> -- 
>   Jamie McCarthy
>  http://mccarthy.vg/
>   jamie@mccarthy.vg
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Rusty Yonkers
CNE, MCP, A+, CCNA, Linux+, Server+, Network+ certified
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An Atomic Supergeek with an attitude!
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Currently using SuSE 8.2, Mac OS X, and WinXP 
And yes I run a network at home with Linux and Windows servers

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