Hard disk error

g geleem at bellsouth.net
Fri May 15 04:22:24 UTC 2009


Rilawich Ango wrote:

> It is not a new drive.  It uses for 1 year.

1 year old, it should still be under warranty replacement. [see below]

> There is no info about this drive in the web.

not web. seagate site.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/contact_us/
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/warranty_&_returns_assistance/

> When I connect it internally, the BIOS can't detect it.

put on controller by itself, change select jumpers from 'master|slave'
to 'cable select'.

if still not seen by bios, drive is lost.

> I just want to get back the data from the drive.

i hope you made good backups.

> Any data recovery tools available in Linux
> to recover data from a crash drive?

if bios does not see drive, there is nothing there due to a possible
problem with electronics board.

to save from losing any data, you will need to contact seagate to see
if they can replace electronics board so that you can recover data.
[see above]

-- 

peace out.

tc,hago.

g
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