Re: Hard drive repair (longish)

From: Ray (pohl1_yourpanties__at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:51:39 -0500

Hi there.

What does the bios report for the name of the drive on boot. The drive may
have gone into "safe mode". You can check this by googling the the drive
info reported by the bios. Check any articles that include the word "Ace".
Apparently, only part of the data needed to access the drive information is
in the firmware - the other part is on the storage platters. If there is a
discrepancy, the drive kicks into safe mode and your data appears gone. The
only way to recover the data is to edit and rematch the data in the two
portions.

Ray
> PlainBill

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