Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sat Feb 28 16:54:31 CST 2009
Try putting in your freezer in a ziplock bag for a few hours, take it out and *immediately* try to read everything off it - if it works you only have about a quarter of an ohoujr or so before it warms up nd stops working again. I havn't done that for quite a few years, but I managed to get stuff off two separate IDE drives in the past using this technique. -- Stuart On 28 Feb 2009 at 15:55, Tina Norris Fields wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using a SimpleTech 120Gb USB external hard drive for my backup > storage. It's also the one place I've been putting all my downloaded > files, and all my photos. It started making little sounds reminiscent > of a floppy drive having trouble reading a diskette formatted on another > drive - you know, the bearings are worn just a little differently, so > the tracks don't line up perfectly when the disk is being accessed in > one machine, but there is no problem when it's being accessed in the > other machine. The external drive started making that kind of sound - > having a little trouble reading. I was thinking that I would replace > that hard drive soon, but it stopped reading before I got around to > replacing it. Now any attempt to access it results in the message that > the drive is not formatted and would I like to format it now. No, I > don't want to format it now - I want to copy all the backed up stuff I > have on it and put it all on the nice new 500Gb external hard drive I > have. > > What tools are out there that do what the Norton Utilities used to do > back in DOS days? There used to be a good Norton Utility that let one > have access to a disk that DOS couldn't read - what's out there now that > I might use to recover the good stuff I put away on this drive for > safekeeping? > > I will appreciate any help at all on this. > > Tina > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com