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Panic mode: HD not working
Meomix:
Take a ubuntu live cd and start it up DO NOT USE GPARTED OTHERWISE YOU WILL RISK ERASING THE DRIVE use ubuntu to view your broken drive, if it can access and see the files in the drive copy your stuff onto a new medium asap.
GoGeTa006:
--- Quote from: Meomix on January 20, 2012, 09:05:04 AM ---Take a ubuntu live cd and start it up DO NOT USE GPARTED OTHERWISE YOU WILL RISK ERASING THE DRIVE use ubuntu to view your broken drive, if it can access and see the files in the drive copy your stuff onto a new medium asap.
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can I get a little elaboration there? I have never used ubuntu
does it have a simple get-around GUI or is it command based?
*edit*
which version of ubuntu? (11.6 which seesm like the newest says AMD on the torrent)
and comments say that 11.6 sucks and freezes and stuff. . .which version should I get?
Bob2004:
If Windows can't read the drive, then Ubuntu most likely won't be able to either (though there may well be tools included in the distribution which might be able to help, I wouldn't recommend going near them if you don't know what you're doing). If anything, Ubuntu's support for NTFS partitions is a lot worse than Windows (since only Windows formats its drives as NTFS).
My advice is to not worry about using Ubuntu. Unless you find some really good drive recovery software which only runs on Linux, there's not much benefit to it unless you're an experienced Linux user who's happy to muck around on the command line, edit system files, etc.
kitamesume:
btw, did you ever tried taking a look at the pins? once i mistakenly moved the jumper on the wrong pin on an old drive and it looked like a blank disk from the OS.
GoGeTa006:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on January 20, 2012, 06:47:04 PM ---btw, did you ever tried taking a look at the pins? once i mistakenly moved the jumper on the wrong pin on an old drive and it looked like a blank disk from the OS.
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I havent touched the pins, hell I hadnt even removed it from its external enclosure until this problem happened
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