Hard drive not seen in BIOS! Help [quantum drive] [fri]
Re:Thanks for your suggestions. I put the drive in the freezer overnight, and tried it again this morning. That didn't work. I tried the POWMax utility (Ver 4.21, drive utility program) from Maxtor (owner of Quantum drives now) and that didn't work. I then downloaded, burned and tried several utilities off of the Ultimate Boot CD, but it is no use. This drive is toast. Perhaps the owner will seek professional recovery services.
Thanks to everyone for their help.
Re:This sounds bad. The only hope I see is with Quantum utilities, or utilities from the "Ultimate Boot CD". The hope is that the MBR or translation table got corrupted and can be rebuilt without scattering the data. Some of the manufacturer's utilities will work on other brands if thier brand is present on the system.
These drive utilities usually work at a very basic hardware level (often booted from floppy) and CAN recognize the drive even if the bios does not as long as the machine posts.
I don't know if this could help you get the data, but until the bios recognizes the drive, I see no other hope.
Jim
Re:Try the freezer trick. That was happening to one of my drives, it was clicking at bios detection. I stuck it in the freezer for an hour, re-installed it in the PC, bios detected it, and I recovered 40gb worth of data..
Re:I'm suprised the thing lasted that long, although some of those old ones were tanks.
Time to buy a new harddrive
Re:this dead HD is the slave in this system….I was trying to reinstall Win98 to his Master HD, which is a "good" hard drive. Anyways, this isn't my computer, I have been trying to persuade the guy to get rid of it and get a new computer, but he doesn't want to spend the money.
Re:I wouldn't believe you would try to reinstall Win98 over an existing install on a 500MB harddrive..it would run out of space ime ..it's upgrade time anyway
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