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| whiskers |
looks like i screwed up another computer.
i got my hands on a semi-old dell with a scsi drive inside... unfortunately, the idiot i am, instead of doing a clean windows install and using windows's format utility, i reformatted the hard drive through the BIOS...
turnes out that was a low-level format, and now the drive seems to be messed up. on start up, it says "device not ready"
i tried formatting again, but after some time it quits with an error message: no host adapter error 82h
i booted from floppies with numerous format utilities, and nothing worked so far. windows's fdisk, as well as western digital's tool utility, couldn't see the drive at all.
it's a western digital enterprise 4360 ultra fast wide scsi3 4.36Gb drive, btw.
is this physical damage that can't be recovered? or is there a program out there on the net that would let me repair the drive? |
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| CynepMeH |
Try some installing Linux (any flavor, Slackware recommended) - they tend to have heavy-duty formatting utilities that can go deeper than MS crap. You may also want to try using Partition Magic rescue disk. Worst case scenario, try ghosting the drive with some data (this would at least create some kind of file system).
You may also wish to post this question on some of the Linux forums - those guys take pride in finding the answer to most obscure mishaps, unlike my lazy ass that doesn't feel like searching on Sat. night.
hope this gives u some ideas.
g'luck and godspeed.... hehehehehe <<>>>:clown: |
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| whiskers |
eheh, i already tried partition magic (couldn't see the drive) and a linux mandrake distro gave me an error - couldn't write to partition table (maybe the table is what's messed up)
i'll try a slackware distro tomorrow, but i doubt it'll be any luck.
thanks anyway ;) |
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