[TriLUG] Hard drive recovery

[Jason Tower]

a hosed hdd can interfere with other ide devices, i've seen this kind of 
behavior before.  make sure they're not on the same channel, and be sure 
to try different jumper settings.  if that fails try using a pci ide 
controller for the hdd.  if that doesn't work you're probably sol.

jason

Owen Berry wrote:
> This morning my wife's computer crashed, the hard drive started making
> clicking noises, and, when rebooted would get past the BIOS startup and
> then stop with a flashing cursor in the top left hand corner of the
> screen. The only good sign is that the BIOS detects the hard drive.
> 
> Seems pretty bad. My first thought was to try to recover whatever
> possible using Knoppix. Tried booting off the CD, but all I got was the
> flashing cursor. Went into the BIOS and double checked that the CD drive
> came before the hard drive in terms of startup devices - it was. To be
> sure, I changed all 3 options to be the CD drive. Still the same result.
> 
> I tried unplugging the hard drive and then booting off Knoppix, and
> everything worked fine. Any ideas what I could be missing here?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- Owen
> 
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