Dear Neal,

You can try to put the failed hard drive in the
refrigerator for 2-3 hours and test it again. If it
work which I can't guarantee it, you may have enough
time to recover important data which fortunately you
don't have any, in this case.

RS


--- Neal Collins <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well, I just had one of my hard drives fail. I was
> running a dual boot with
> Win 98 and Win ME..mainly I just wanted to see if ME
> was any better. Since I
> didn't really like it, I never really used that
> drive and it is the one that
> failed.  I am pretty sure its completely gone, with
> no chance of recovery at
> all.  If I hook up just the failed drive, it is not
> detected at all...not
> listed in the bios and I get a warning that no hard
> disk is installed. I have
> verified that the ribbon cable and IDE controller
> are working, since I can
> boot my Windows 98 hard drive just fine.
> I was just curious for learing purposes if there
> might be any steps I can
> take to try and recover data on the malfunctioning
> drive. I'm pretty sure its
> a lost cause on this one, just a good thing there
> wasn't anything important
> on it.
> Thanks,
>
> Neal Collins
> A+
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