My 40 giger, which was the OS one just fucked me over about two weeks ago. And in replace of it I got a 160 giger. The thing is, it spins up but it seems like it cant read anything from it. Even tried R-Studio to see if it would be detected but no go. Since that isnt the drive I stored all my videos and shit on, but it does have my bookmarks. I'm wondering if theres a way I would be able to get it to work again for a little bit. I know the freezer trick wont work cuz that's if it doesnt spin up.
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Anonymous2005-02-13 8:49
Try using one of those linux livecds and mount it. Either it's dead or something happened to the partition table.
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Anonymous2005-02-13 20:40
How do I mount it? Lawl, sorry for my stupidity.
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Anonymous2005-02-13 21:40
if your bios doesnt see it you are 100% fucked
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Anonymous2005-02-13 22:11
How is it connected? Is it an external USB drive, or an internal (and probably IDE) drive?
as far as mounting goes, figure out which one it is (using the command "dmesg |less" and the process of elmination -- it should be something like /dev/hdb or /dev/hdh or sth). This is, of course, assuming that you're using some sort of unix. Once you figure out which bit it is, mount it one of three ways (depending on your FS):
mount -t ntfs /dev/<blah> <mountpoint> (if it's native XP/2000)
mount -t vfat /dev/<blah> <mountpoint> (if it's fat, instead of ntfs)
mount /dev/<blah> <mountpoint> (if you formatted it in *nix --which sounds highly unlikely - let it figure out what FS it is on its' own.)
If you can boot with Linux, linux bypasses the BIOS to read directly from the hard drive controller, so you may not be *completely* fucked ... but if the filesystem went south on you (for whatever reason) then you probably are fucked.
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Anonymous2005-02-13 23:08
It's IDE.
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I think it does detect it, not entirly sure. Because when I have that drive in and not this current one, it gets an "error" and scans something... I'll put it in tomorow and post the message it says. Sorry I couldn't remember what it says.
Thx for the mount help. I'll try that tomorow aswell.
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Anonymous2005-02-14 0:19
Then it should be internal. Another thing to try if nothing shows up in dmesg is "fdisk /dev/<your drive>". Just be careful to not write out any changes before you quit (as I remember, you can ^C out of fdisk and not have anything written to disk).
fdisk obviously won't help you get your files back, but it may tell you wether or not you (still) have a filesystem on there, and what it is.
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Anonymous2005-02-14 3:02
you are completely fucked if the bios hardware controller will not recognize the drive
and fucking around on the inode level by hand with dd is well beyond this guys level
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Anonymous2005-02-14 4:00
It seems to recognize the drive though, if it has an error when that drive is the only one on.
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