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Dead drive may be?
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:01 am
by bubba
ok was asked to look at a drive, the one who owns it said that he got board waiting for it to format and shut off the machine. Is there a way to save the drive or should he start talking to the manuf. to get it fixed that way?
oh, its a western digital caviar 160g pata.
thoughts?
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:21 am
by kenc51
Have you tried format it ?
If it won't format normally - you can write zeros to the drive (low-level format)
WD have a utility which allows you to do it! (can't remember the name - I don't use WD)
Could also try "SpinRite" --> can be found @ GRC.com (have to pay for it tough)
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:36 am
by bubba
I tried putting it in my system, wont even show up. rebooted to try fdisk. I droped all drives but that one and it gave a fatal error trying to read the disk...
I'll hit up WD site see if I can find something.
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:46 am
by kenc51
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:54 am
by Illuminati
as long as there are no physical defects, a low-level format should work.
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:02 am
by bubba
I have grabed some of the disk util from WD, never thought about going there. If those dont work I'll see about the spin rite, that looks pretty good.
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:44 pm
by bubba
ok, got the drive going again.
found an old fdisk here at work, add the util to it droped all drives but the one needing to be fixed (wouldnt see other wise) then did the zero level format. now need to get the drive partioned and formated.
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:51 pm
by kenc51
bubba wrote:ok, got the drive going again.
found an old fdisk here at work, add the util to it droped all drives but the one needing to be fixed (wouldnt see other wise) then did the zero level format. now need to get the drive partioned and formated.
R U saying your sorted???
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:40 pm
by bubba
? formated ok, in the process of coping over my "art" collection to the drive.
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:08 pm
by kenc51
bubba wrote:? formated ok, in the process of coping over my "art" collection to the drive.
"ART" ???? hehehe
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:49 pm
by bubba
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:46 pm
by killswitch83
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:24 am
by bubba
accutaly the drive ended up tits up anyway, sad really, started getting corrupt files. whent to do the drive test and it just stoped talking. He is looking into an RMA. up side he got most the "art" off loaded to DVD's
