[ale] OT: HW failure

[Geoffrey]

Jeff Rose wrote:
> Hello, I recently experienced the sting of hard drive failure.
> Luckily I noticed the drive making funny noises and was able to back
> up all my essential data.  I have installed Slackware 9.1 on an older
> hard drive.  I decided since RH was forcing my hand, I'd try
> something a little different.  I'm loving Slackware so far.  Very
> intuitive.  Anyway, the failed hd is recognized by my BIOS but linux
> is unable to talk to it.  It makes loud clicking noises.  Is there
> any hope for this thing?  I'm not a hw guy.  I was just hoping to
> salvage it because it is 60 GB.

I recently went through a similar process.  Downloaded a tool to attempt 
to recover the drive.  It was toast.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey	esoteric at 3times25.net

Building secure systems inspite of Microsoft