If you can find another identical working drive, you can swap the circuit boards between the two and see if your drive fires up - this can work because i've done it myself.
However, IBM Deskstar drives are notorious for developing serious mechanical faults. These can be easily identified by a distinctive regular ‘scratching and clicking’ noise coming from the hard disk. This is commonly known in the industry as the IBM Deskstar ‘click of death.’This failure is caused by the unique design and manufacturing of the hard drive’s read / write heads, and the interaction of the GMR (Giant Magneto Resistive) technology with the data stored on the hard disk. These internal hard disk problems cause increased contamination, which in turn produce the notorious ‘click of death.’
Sounds like you may be in luck if there was no clicking/grating noises etc. A set of small torq bits will sort you out.Good luck!
Its enough to make me buy a mac.
you must have more money than you know what to do with.
Yeah check me out I just threw away half-a-grand on getting some pictures back.
Computer users fall into two groups:-Those that do backupsThose that have never had a hard drive fail.
Or fools like me who have had drive failures but still dont' back stuff up enough. I do archive all my photos online though. Flickr is a good place to do it if you can live with the 2meg limit per pic, but there are pro sites that offer similar service for keeping big files. What about that free unlimited storage site that somebody linked to on here a while ago? That'd be ideal.
That' t'was me.
If you've a pro account at flickr the upload limit per image should be 10Mb per file (5Mb for free acounts)
Looking at that speed issue page, I think all it's saying is download the disc image, burn it and then run it when you reboot.If you can't use your CDrom, download the floppy image instead, write it to a floppy, reboot and run it with the new disc attached.
That does seem like rather a lot to have paid, especially if your now having trouble accessing the drive, I'd be well furious
Macs still get HD failures Smiley
Adam - the motherboard will only support 4 devices at a time. If you use SATA then one of the IDE's will be redundant. I can't remember which one, Look at the support pages for the BH7, Infact I'll look now for you
Quote from: slack---line on November 22, 2007, 04:56:06 pmComputer users fall into two groups:-Those that do backupsThose that have never had a hard drive fail.Or fools like me who have had drive failures but still dont' back stuff up enough.
maybe the original point was a typo and should have read 22.