seagate drives now all have 5 year warranties. b. Walter Hoolwerf wrote:
On 2005-09-21 14:00:25 +0200, Borislav Petkov <petkov@uni-muenster.de> said:On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:46:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:10 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:Hi there, my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem, however, since the hd is damaged at its very beginning and attempting to mount it gives I/O error on sector 0 and the consecutive ones. So, is there a way to jump after those erroneous sectors and read what's left. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated, thanks!dd skipping over the 1st few sectors might help, if your new disk is sufficiently larger than your dead disk.P.S. I'm off to buy a new hd. Any particular brands I should keep away from?Infinite are the arguments of geeks regarding hard drives. I've had nothing but success with Maxtor. Others hate them with a passion.This is ironic. The failed hd is _a_ Maxtor, infact. Hmm.., if that ain't a coincidence :)all my maxtor's (3) failed, both my WD's work without a glitch. maybe I was just out of luck :)
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