Re: hard drive recovery...

i actually have four of these drives, but none of them are the exact
same model. one was manufactured a day after the damaged one,
but the model numbers are significantly different. i'm thinking now
that it's just the controller that's the problem since it was heating up
in one corner pretty badly where none of my other WDs were. i gutted
two other western digital 100gb drives out of a wintendo and tried
both of the controllers. one (manufacturered the day after) gave the
same result as the original controller, but one manufacturered
over a year later seemed to operate fine. no clicking, no noises, no
sounds of the drive trying to spin up only to click and reset every
few seconds. it spun up and sounded completely normal. the only
problem there was that the drive wasn't detected by the bios, but
dmesg seemed to find it anyhow and spewed out a few dozen
lines of 'drive not ready' and other seek errors. cfdisk and fsck also
couldn't access the drive in any way.

i guess now my mission is to track down an identical match and
swap out the controllers. if that doesn't work i assume my only
other option would be to look into a data recovery service, though
i'm not keen on having to sell a kidney to pay the insane fee that
would entail. thought i'd mention it's a western digital 100gb
WD1000BB-32CCB0. never know, someone out there might have
one, or know where to find one, while i'm keeping an eye on ebay.

thanks,
~clay

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Received on Mon Oct 11 16:33:25 2004