RE: Failed hard disk recovery - Help

["Darryl Mattocks" <Darryl.Mattocks@xxxxxxx>]

Try sticking it in the fridge for an hour or so and then trying it
again.  I know it sounds daft but some folk have tried it successfully.


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-----Original Message-----
From: biggles299 [mailto:charles@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 19 September 2003 10:56
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Failed hard disk recovery - Help

My IBM 75GXP hard disk has given up the ghost. Does anyone have any=20
personal recommendations for a data recovery house. There seem to be=20
plenty out there but I would be interested in any feedback from the=20
group.
Any suggestions for recovery solutions I can try myself would be=20
gratefully received.
It looks like the disk cannot find it's boot record.

Symptoms are
Bios can detect the drive.
Drive makes a Tsk tsk tsk sound on boot=20
Bios reports HDD error
Running IBM drive fitness test gives failure code 0x72 Smart Failure.

So far I have tried:
Manually setting the bios
Another machine
Run as master, run as slave drive

Thanks in advance

Charles




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