Re: FN-FORUM invisible HD

date posted 13th January 2003 22:20

> What I would suggest trying is getting an identical (but working) drive
and
> swap the controller over. In the past I have done that to recover data
and
> I have then billed the client for the drive+time and it has still worked
out
> cheaper than the data recovery services.

sounds like a great idea but I've come to the end of the line with this.
I'll pass it on as a recommendation. The client has a good relationship
with a hardware supplier that can do that for them. I'm falling further
and further behind on the web work I should be doing even after working
evenings and weekends to catch up.

Now thats decided I need to fix their other system. Which was booting
with a bios fault so only the basic hardware was loaded. In frustration
I upgraded the bios and now the system says, on boot, CPU not supported
so I can't get far enough in to the system to install the previous bios.
What a feckin' day !

Darren



----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Spink" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:38 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM invisible HD


> Hi Darren,
>
> What I would suggest trying is getting an identical (but working) drive
and
> swap the controller over. In the past I have done that to recover data
and
> I have then billed the client for the drive+time and it has still worked
out
> cheaper than the data recovery services.
>
> Why don't you post the drive make/model/size etc on here and see if anyone
> has one that is kicking around.
>
> HTH
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Darren Spink
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 13 January 2003 20:51
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> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM invisible HD
>
>
> Cheers guys, I've tried every combination of the jumper settings.
> Just rebooted to check in BIOS, Nothing.
> There's absolutely no sign of it anywhere on the system.
> RIP me thinks
> ok, if its called for, anybody know of a cheap data recovery
> service. sigh . . .
>
> After this fiasco I'm dropping hardware support and sticking to
> websites. Bloody thing worked fine this morning.
>
> Darren
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rus Foster" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 8:04 PM
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM invisible HD
>
>
> > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> >
> > > yet more hardware agro !
> > >
> > > I have a clients hard drive here that just stopped being
> > > picked up by his motherboard so I brought it home to
> > > plug into my machine thinking it was their new system
> > > that was at fault, but no. Its plugged in now as primary
> > > drive and windows doesn't pick it up at all. Not even
> > > some kind of error.
> > >
> > > Anybody any ideas.
> > >
> >
> > Most BIOS have Auto-detect HDD. Give that try. If that doesn't work it
> > might be the master/slave settings. If that still doesn't work I would
say
> > dead controller on the HDD. Time for those backups
> >
> > Rus
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