On Sat, 10 May 2008 00:07:57 GMT, Kiiro <anon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Galen wrote:
>> My MyBookWorld drive failed recently; still under warranty,
>> but that means losing the data, and I thought it was more
>> likely the board than the drive. So I dismantled the Book,
>> extracted the drive, installed Hardy Heron ubuntu on a
>> computer with sata connections, ordered the sata cables
>> mailed in (no one sells them locally, AFAIK). And installed.
>> Frozen Device, Fatal Error, Cannot be Read, I/O error -
>> seems to be the drive after all. Drat.
>>
>> Hardy Heron is a convenient build though - the default
>> installation came up as a dual boot. It re-partitions the
>> boot drive during the install, and formats whatever space
>> you allocate to the Linux OS. I didn't try to establish a FAT
>> partition because I use external storage for that.
>>
>> The dual booting windows is, however, even slower than
>> it used to be starting up. Beyond that, I can't test the file
>> structure on the drive - I tell it to test disc C, it says it has
>> to reboot, I reboot, it forgets to perform the test. Maxtor
>> says the drive is fine, but I want to check *windows* for
>> installation damage - does anyone know offhand where
>> I can look for that answer?
>>
>> -Galen
>
> Since you have Ubuntu installed. Install ddrescue on it and see if it
>will read the drive. Basically the program reads from the bad drive and
>writes an image file to another drive. The other drive will need to be
>bigger than the one you are trying to recover.
>
> Kiiro
I did try that. The drive controller finds the disc unreadable.
Very strange, since it sounds like it's spinning up normally,
but it doesn't consistently detect in bios either.
-Galen
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