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Re: [PLUG] Fixing bad hard drive
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On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Jon Nelson wrote:
> I have a Maxtor D540X-4K 40gb drive that I took out of my Tivo after it
> stopped working. I put it into a Linux box as secondary master and the
> BIOS messages stated that the drive failed. In the boot messages Linux
> saw it as /dev/hdc. An 'fdisk -l /dev/hdc' returned nothing.
>
> The drive does spin. Since I had nothing to loose I took of the top of
> the drive and watched it spin up. The arm traveled from the center to the
> edge. When the drive was accessed the arm went back to the center with a
> "clunk". This could be heard before the cover was removed as well.
>
> I want to try to replace the controller card to see if this fixes the
> problem. Has anyone ever done this? Does it work? Where is the best
> place to get a replacement?
I've tried changing the controller card. Sometimes it works. Does the
mother board's bios recognize it?
Another trick is to put it alone on a mother board with a 3 1/2 drive
and use old dos and norton to board the drive. Use FDisk to zero out
the MBP where there may be some distructive trash.
bs
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