pepsik
Apr 22, 2003, 05:12 PM
Western Digital 80 gig 7200rpm. The darned thing lasted about a year and a half.
My question is this, can i take the information on the dead drive and somehow transfer the info onto the replacement drive? Or is the drive dead and buried so to speak. The replacement drive is a 60 gig maxxtor. And the deceased drive had about 30 gigs of info on it.
gambit_360
Apr 22, 2003, 05:57 PM
I'm not quite sure but I believe you need to get a specialized data recovery service company to do it for you. This can cost in the thousands of dollars.
If the hard drive at least boots up and is detected, you might be able to use data recovery software.
pepsik
Apr 22, 2003, 07:19 PM
The drive is detected 6 out of 10 times but does not boot. Oh well not like it's all that important to recover that crap.
420
Apr 22, 2003, 10:21 PM
Not that tough m8 ... Once you have your new drive setup, you should be able to pull at least most of the date off using data recovery software. Someone makes a really good app for that ... maybe Veritas? can't recall.
Oddjob633
Apr 23, 2003, 01:38 AM
i had the same problem. what happened was my boot sector was corrupted so i couldn't boot from the hard drive. however it works fine when its a slave. have u tried making ur bad drive a slave to ur master drive? thats how i have it configured right now on my comp.
