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Dead hdd

Old Perry · 2014-09-30 19:04:17

So my harddrive is seemingly dead. have tried finding it on computer management, different desktops and also a different case and power source. no joy. my next stop was to try find a new sata board for it. is this a lost cause? any advice appriciated.

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30-09-2014 8:04pm

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Old Perry

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So my harddrive is seemingly dead. have tried finding it on computer management, different desktops and also a different case and power source. no joy. my next stop was to try find a new sata board for it.

is this a lost cause? any advice appriciated.

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#2 30-09-2014 10:52pm
mordeith

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Try a bootable Linux distro and see if that can pick it up

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#3 30-09-2014 10:53pm
mickotoole

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Try to use something like Clonezilla to create an image of the disk then recover from the image, (providing of course it picks up the disk)

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