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Re: [PLUG] Reading an 80GB hard disk with Mandrake Linux
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George,
You indicated that the BIOS saw the drive as it should. If you have
data on the disk you want recovered, then STOP PLAYING WITH IT. If
you'd like to experiment with ez-bios then have at it.
Taken from Phoenix Technologies Web site:
"The nature of EZ-BIOS is hidden to most, being a rather unique sort
of utility. Its power lies in how it gets installed; not as a driver,
or any sort of file, but as raw machine-code written directly to
"Track Zero" on the hard-disk itself. This method ensures the integrity
and security of the code, and enables EZ-BIOS to provide the kind of
services not found with other products."
Data recovery is a process that includes copying the data from every
track/sector/cluster/block/etc/etc/etc. Everything. A bit-stream image
of the entire drive regardless of what's written to track zero. In most
cases this is not too difficult to do. I'm sure everyone in this group
could do it given a little time and some reading. What I meant when I
offered help was to help you to avoid a lot of time and frustration.
The truth is, it doesn't matter what type of file system is on the disk
or what type of data...as long as it's not illegal;)
Everything can be recovered.
Chris Shanahan
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 18:35, Bob Schwier wrote:
> Try Norton System Works in disk edit mode. It is possible to get into the
> mbr and hopefully rebuild it so that you can read the disk. Have you
> tried a floppy made from a windows xp start up?
> The point is to get under the current system so that you can read the
> files and get them off. Then you can safely do surgery which may be
> massive.
> bs
>
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 amenex@voicenet.com wrote:
>
> > Hello PLUG !
> >
> > There are several websites where I can send my 80GB hard drive
> > to be deciphered and transferred to CD's. Cost ~ $1000.
> >
> > Any solution that you folks can offer that's less costly would be
> > most welcome. Even consulting, hand-holding, etc.
> >
> > This is the drive that's had its O/S files corrupted or lost as the
> > result of getting the drive letters swapped in a previous W98SE
> > install, followed by a botched attempt to install WinXP. The drive
> > was formatted originally with Maxtor's MaxBlast S/W and worked
> > fine in W98SE. The BIOS can see all 80GB just fine, and W98SE
> > could access all 80GB fine as well. The drive would not boot in
> > WinXP unless the WinXP installation CD was in place. I dare not
> > put the two 80GB drives back in together in any system until I can
> > restore access to the remaining good drive, which is the original
> > slave drive that was never copied to from the botched WinXP install.
> > I have been attempting to read the WinXP 80GB drive.
> >
> > I have also tried starting the BookPC with the W98SE 80GB drive
> > shoehorned in instead of the BookPC's CD-R/W drive. The 80GB
> > drive tries to start W98SE when I make it the first boot drive, but
> > wants an installation CD that it can't get, 'cuz there's only one IDE
> > controller in the BookPC. I know that the 80GB disk is OK insofar
> > as the FAt32 is concerned, because the screen shows one of my
> > own pix as background during the startup process.
> >
> > When I make the BookPC's own 40GB drive first in the boot process, Linux tries
> > to detect this 80GB drive, but it disappears from the list
> > of detcted hardware, and I cannot figure out how to access the log
> > files to see where things go wrong. And I haven't been able to
> > mount the 80GB drive, even using the syntax suggested on this list
> > last week.
> >
> > I'm certain that my main problem is that the disk was formatted
> > with Maxtor's proprietary S/W, EZ-Bios. How do I undo this S/W
> > without botching the data ? Alternatively, how do I tell Linux what
> > file system to look for ?
> >
> > Offers of experienced Linux help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > George Langford
> > amenex@amenex.com
> > amenex@voicenet.com
> > http://www.amenex.com/
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