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Re: [PLUG] Reading an 80GB hard disk with Mandrake Linux
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I do data recovery. I'd be happy to help. It's really not that
hard. Just contact me off-list and I'll help. I know what it's
like to feel as though you lost a lot of stuff. I do it at work
all the time...save my co-workers from losing valuable data.
Chris
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 15:47, 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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