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by ask_anurag May 23, 2003 last reply Jul 18, 2003

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Hi,

I have two harddisk one is 40 GB seagate and 20 GB Samsung and these two harddisk fails.No bios detects these harddisk.There are some important data and i want to recover it.Is there any way to recover the data when no bois detects harddisk.
Awiating a positive response.

Anurag.

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by hereinoz May 23, 2003

When you say 'No BIOS" I am assuming that you have tried these two HDDs in several machines and they are not recognised by any of them. Am I correct?

If that is the case it would appear that the controllers on the disks have probably gone belly up and you are in a bit of a pickle! If you have another identical disk drive, and I mean absolutely identical to one of them, you may be able to change the circuit board over and get lucky, but that is a real long shot.

Probably you are faced with taking the disks to those people who can extract data byte by byte from failed HDDs, but they do charge for the priviledge.

If I am wrong and you have only tried the HDDs in one computer, then clearly have a go with another system and see what goes, but I feel you have already done that.

Sorry I can't be of more assistance

by ask_anurag Jul 18, 2003

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by fred07 May 24, 2003

More information is needed???? Where in bios? After post?? Tried in other machines?? Cabling correct?? Jumpers correct.
If you are sure they are dead and not MBR corrupted, they will have to go to a data recovery shop. A spendy piece of work.

by ask_anurag Jul 18, 2003

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by pikikoko May 25, 2003

Yes it can be done. I use Disk Commander by Winternals Software. Ver 1.1 is what I use and it will work as long as the hard drive is mechanically ok. I use seperate drive to move the important files I find. Do not save these files back to the original HD. I have be able to retreive about 95% of my lost files using this tool. I don't know if there is a shareware tool available but I believe you can find a trial verison that will work on 20 drives max. Good Luck
Mike

by ask_anurag Jul 18, 2003

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by act May 25, 2003

This is a long shot but worth a try as I experienced something similiar recently -- make sure the correct power supply switch is firmly on the correct setting. My experience was that the voltage setting was not seated completly and reacted as if I bad IDE controllers. Reseating the switch solved my problem. Good Luck!

by ask_anurag Jul 18, 2003

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by digital_dna May 25, 2003

Seems kind of odd that two hard drives would go at the same time. I'd go with answer 4, I think it was. Make sure all the internal connections are good, IDE drive cables, completely disconnect the second drive (non-boot drive)..

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