RE: Server hardrive failure - HELP

["aashram" <groups@xxxxxxx>]

I have been in you exact position.=0D
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it sounds like it is not that bad if the drive is being recognised.=0D
is it spinning up to normal speed. =0D
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first thing is not to swtich it and fiddle with it too much.=0D
it can make the matter worse.=0D
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is it a IDE drive or scsi ?=0D
there is alot of software out there to recover drives=0D
or like you said you may want to get professional help.=0D
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he is one trick that worked for me.=0D
put the drive as a slave in the win2000/xp machine.=0D
startup a windows xp/2000 machine=0D
can you read the drive ? if not=0D
does the OS see the drive ?=0D
what happens when you try to access it ?=0D
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This all advice I got from a hard drive engineer from the states=0D
when I had problems.=0D
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-----Original Message----- =0D
From: Dean Barrett [mailto:dean@xxxxxxx]
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Sent: Thu 16/10/2003 11:15 =0D
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx =0D
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Subject: [ukha_d] Server hardrive failure - HELP=0D
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Office servers hard drive has just failed.=0D
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I'm panicking !!!!=0D
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Has been working fine for 2 years - powered down this morning for unrelate=
d modem prolem.=0D
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Went to restart it and nothing - no boot record on hard drive....=0D
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What the hell do i do - who should i send it to to recover data.=0D
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This is a real big problem for us. Help me please.=0D
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Machine was/is a NT4 server. I think drive overheated ? - i was on paterni=
ty leave and someone went in the cupboard and left the monitor on which
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a fan in it. Opened cupboard and it was like an oven in there.=0D
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HELP.=0D
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Dean.=0D
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