On an older server machine, I have a NEW 80gb hard drive which now no longer is being recognized by the controller, except sporadically.
Without going into the details of all the steps taken to troublesshoot the situation, suffifce it to say that the drive only intermittently sends data to the controller. Most of the time during boot, the drive isn’t seen. Only occasionally is it recognized. When it’s recognized, I can boot to a DOS disk and every so often see the files on the drive (although it can pause for 2-3 minutes at a time).
The drive was only in the system 2-3 days and working fine when right in the middle of using the system I suddenly could not access that particular hard drive.
The question now is one of recovery. The hard drive seems to be OK on the inside, mechanically so my data is probably fine. It could be as simple as losing contact to one of the pins. Or maybe in the electronics somewhere.
Has anyone ever heard of a problem like this? Any ideas how to get my data off under these circymstances?
Open to any and ALL ideas!!!!
