| From: | Mick Foster |
| Date: | 5 Sep 2000 at 20:22:39 |
| Subject: | Re: HD - dead for good ? |
On 05-09-00, Paul Ferguson asked:
> Hi,
>
> My SCSI Quantum hard drive has been "playing up" for a while now,
developing
> checksum errors, bad blocks etc. Today it decided that enough was enough
and
> appears to have died full stop.
>
> When it's attached to the Amiga I get errors at boot saying that it's a
non
> valid device (possibly a non DOS disk I can't exactly remember) and the
> machine will not boot any further. I've tried QBTools (2 different
versions)
> and RDPrep to no avail so, I'm open to ideas.
>
> I haven't been able to reformat it as it errors with Unable to format
> cylinder X (where X can be any number you care to mention)
Take the HD out, wrap it up in a couple of antistatic bags and stick in the
freezer for a couple of hours or so. When you plug it back it get any data
you want off the HD, then try formatting it then. If that doesn't work, I'm
afraid it's very probably dead :-((
Kind Regards,
Mick.
It would seem to me that the powers that be
Keep themselves in splendour and security...
mickfos@libertysurf.co.uk or mickfos@freeuk.com
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