Hi peeps,
My Samsung SP1213C ( 120GB ) SATA disk has crashed. Its making horrible clicking sounds. The disk is not reading much. Though GRUB does come up and the kernel does start booting up but it finally panics after not being able to find initrd ( Yes, I use Fedora Core 2 :P ). I had some important family pictures and stuff in there.
I tried booting to Windows and using the EXT2FS reader but its of no use. It cant read anything. It gives a bunch of read errors. I spoke to my vendor and he said that none of the recovery guys he knows can recover a disk with a Linux FS. Also, if I give it to some third party who opens up the drive, my drives warranty will be void.
Samsung is of no help. They're pathetic :( I mean they'll just replace the drive. They wont take any responsibility for the data! But I guess thats normal, right?
I'm not sure what I should do at this point. Can anybody help out?? Any suggestions???
On Saturday 20 January 2007 23:38, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Samsung is of no help. They're pathetic :( I mean they'll just replace the drive. They wont take any responsibility for the data! But I guess thats normal, right?
Completly.
I'm not sure what I should do at this point. Can anybody help out?? Any suggestions???
Find a similiar drive and replace the controller. It works many a times. Or deep freeze the drive. Grep the list. There is a thread where Philip has described the procedure in detail.
Sometime on Jan 20, jtd assembled some asciibets to say:
Find a similiar drive and replace the controller. It works many a times. Or deep freeze the drive. Grep the list. There is a thread where Philip has described the procedure in detail.
Use an air tight freezer bag, put the disk in, squeeze out as much air as possible, seal and freeze overnight. Make sure you're ready to transfer the data out the next day.
When you take the drive out of the freezer, make sure it's dry. Sometimes moisture trapped in the bag condenses onto the metallic surface. Dry what you can see, wait for a few minutes and plug it in. It should last a couple of hours after this. This procedure cannot be used too often.
Philip
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 00:14 +0530, Philip Tellis wrote:
Sometime on Jan 20, jtd assembled some asciibets to say:
Find a similiar drive and replace the controller. It works many a times. Or deep freeze the drive. Grep the list. There is a thread where Philip has described the procedure in detail.
Use an air tight freezer bag, put the disk in, squeeze out as much air as possible, seal and freeze overnight. Make sure you're ready to transfer the data out the next day.
Thanks a lot both of you :) But this procedure seems too risky. I might end up losing my warranty. Besides, there is no guarantee whether it will work or not. And with the way things are going with me, I wouldn't want to take any chances! :(
My new system arrived with a faulty 512MB RAM :( Gotta replace it! Whee :'(
Sometime Today, Dinesh Joshi assembled some asciibets to say:
Thanks a lot both of you :) But this procedure seems too risky. I might end up losing my warranty. Besides, there is no guarantee whether it will work or not. And with the way things are going with me, I wouldn't want to take any chances! :(
It worked for me on three hard disks from three different manufacturers - Quantum, Seagate and Samsung. Also, you aren't opening the drive, so the warranty won't be voided. Is there a clause in your warranty about operating and storage temperature for the drive?
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 02:10 +0530, Philip Tellis wrote:
It worked for me on three hard disks from three different manufacturers
- Quantum, Seagate and Samsung. Also, you aren't opening the drive, so
the warranty won't be voided. Is there a clause in your warranty about operating and storage temperature for the drive?
No but they have a clause against damage due to water and such liquids. I'm only concerned about damaging the components due to condensation. Since you say it worked for you on three different drives, I might just try it =)
Sometime on Jan 20, Dinesh Joshi assembled some asciibets to say:
My Samsung SP1213C ( 120GB ) SATA disk has crashed. Its making horrible clicking sounds. The disk is not reading much. Though GRUB does come up and the kernel does start booting up but it finally panics after not being able to find initrd ( Yes, I use Fedora Core 2 :P ). I had some important family pictures and stuff in there.
You may also find this useful: http://bluesmoon.blogspot.com/2004/11/home-is-ntfs.html
then again, it might not.
If you succeed, document the procedure.
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Dinesh Joshi -
jtd -
Philip Tellis