mullet_man Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 I have a teacher laptop which the hard drive has failed, it is not even showing up in the bios, is there any way I can get in via a linux CD? or is it dead? Any advice would be great!!
e_g_r Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 Super Stewie suggests doing a search for bartpe on the web. Apparently this app can grab data from a disk (if you can see it). If it essential there are companies who charge (£50?) per meg to recover data
mullet_man Posted September 13, 2006 Author Posted September 13, 2006 Its TOBs laptop!!!! super Stewie eh!!! I tired those two linux CDs we had didn't seem to help!!!
mrforgetful Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 Not sure if this is any use if it's not findable, but I use one of these: Akasa 2.5 Integral P2 HDD Enclosure Blue http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=6791&category_id=350&manufacturer_id=0 Basically it's a USB2 device that you put your laptop HDD into and then connect to a normal PC's USB port, shows up as any other drive would and can just drag stuff off. Dead simple.
Geoff Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 Also consider freezing the drive before attempting data recovery. That sometimes helps freeing up crashed heads.
CyberNerd Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 Also consider freezing the drive before attempting data recovery. That sometimes helps freeing up crashed heads. good advice. We've been known to put them in the freezer compartment of the staffroom fridge - and get some strange looks. If the HDD doesn't show in the BIOS - your not going to get an OS to see it. Also get an IDE to laptop IDE cable form CPC - about £3 so you can plug into a desktop
Dos_Box Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 If the HDD doesn't show in the BIOS - your not going to get an OS to see it. Also get an IDE to laptop IDE cable form CPC - about £3 so you can plug into a desktop A life saving part of my tool kit!
mrforgetful Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 If the HDD doesn't show in the BIOS - your not going to get an OS to see it. Also get an IDE to laptop IDE cable form CPC - about £3 so you can plug into a desktop A life saving part of my tool kit! Bah, not as nice as my USB thingy!
mullet_man Posted September 13, 2006 Author Posted September 13, 2006 Also consider freezing the drive before attempting data recovery. That sometimes helps freeing up crashed heads. good advice. We've been known to put them in the freezer compartment of the staffroom fridge - and get some strange looks. If the HDD doesn't show in the BIOS - your not going to get an OS to see it. Also get an IDE to laptop IDE cable form CPC - about £3 so you can plug into a desktop So do you think a desktop might see the drive if I get one of these cables?
CyberNerd Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 @mullet_ man only if the IDE controller on the laptop is dead, which less unlikely than drive failure I just find them useful for laptop/Desktop integration - also faster than USB. Probably I'd go about it sortof like this: get the drive recognised in a bios somehow (freezing / swapping out into another laptop) boot a linux distro image the drive dd if=/dev/hdX of=/home/me/image copy the image back to a good drive dd if=/home/me/image of=/dev/hdX replace and reboot
mullet_man Posted September 13, 2006 Author Posted September 13, 2006 Yeah the laptop sees another drive fine, so it is the HD that is dead!!
CyberNerd Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 also... another option if you really can't get the drive seen in a bios is to get another drive (exact same model) and replace the circuit board with the broken drive. Its a bit fiddly but can work if you start running out of options.
mullet_man Posted September 13, 2006 Author Posted September 13, 2006 Thanks for the advice, I will let you know how I get on!!!
crc-ict Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 Also get an IDE to laptop IDE cable form CPC - about £3 so you can plug into a desktop Last time I used one of those (several moons ago) it fried the drive... An object lesson in making sure the connector is the right way round I think!
CyberNerd Posted September 13, 2006 Posted September 13, 2006 CyberNerd wrote: Also get an IDE to laptop IDE cable form CPC - about £3 so you can plug into a desktop Last time I used one of those (several moons ago) it fried the drive... An object lesson in making sure the connector is the right way round I think! :oops: I made the same mistake, its easily done - Thankfully Lenovo were kind enough to replace their broken drive and I never did it since
_Bat_ Posted October 30, 2006 Posted October 30, 2006 Also get an IDE to laptop IDE cable form CPC - about £3 so you can plug into a desktop Last time I used one of those (several moons ago) it fried the drive... An object lesson in making sure the connector is the right way round I think! Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but which way around do you connect it? I'm about to do this now and frying the drive is not an option. I know the red strip means pin 1, but which is pin 1? :S
bossman Posted October 30, 2006 Posted October 30, 2006 I have done this plus used easyrecovery pro from ontrack for just said purpose and it worked excellent recovered 5Gb data but took quite a long time nearly a week but this was due to all the small files. You can set it to recover specific files, directories or whole drives.
_Bat_ Posted October 30, 2006 Posted October 30, 2006 Lol yeah but which way around does it go? I wouldn't have been too worried if it wasn't for people saying they had fried the drive doing it in the past. I need to check now before I can do it
plexer Posted October 30, 2006 Posted October 30, 2006 The one I have has a blocked hole to key it to the drive and I've not fried one yet. Ben
_Bat_ Posted October 30, 2006 Posted October 30, 2006 The one I have has a blocked hole to key it to the drive and I've not fried one yet. Ben Unfortunately the one I bought over the weekend doesn't have the blocked hole . This is the one I bought: link
_Bat_ Posted October 30, 2006 Posted October 30, 2006 Okay, I got the info I needed off the web. For anyone who may or may not need it in the future: On a laptop hard drive there are 2 groups of pins. One group has 43 pins and the other has 4 pins. The pin 1 is located on the side closer to the group of 4 pins.
flashsnaps Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 Yeah the laptop sees another drive fine, so it is the HD that is dead!! Not necessarily. My harddrive wouldn't read/format - even windows said "you may have a damaged disk", I tried a lot of things/many people even on here said the harddrive was nackered - I wouldn't accept it though. Someone mentioned downloading a harddrive utility from seagate, I ran a long test (4hours). 8 errors appeared, repaired the errors - booom! Drive back functioning correctly! ))))
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