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Kady Mae
Junior Member
USA
261 Posts |
 Posted - 19 Jun 2003 : 20:00:11
About 3 months ago I upgraded my PC, Ad Astra to W98se.Before I installed SE, I burned a back up of all my irreplaceable files. Then my husband's PC started acting wonky and I couldn't get it to format the new 40 gig HD we'd bought (because his PC had no working floppy drive), so I had to take the D: drive out of my PC (where I backed up all of my irrreplacable files) re format it, and use it to try and salvage data from his drive. I went to turn on my PC last night and ... it couldn't find my C:drive. I swapped the ribbon, I swapped busses. Nothing. Doesn't detect. I swapped in a spare drive I have and. boom! no problem. Drive detects. I'm going to swap the old drive into my G4 and see if I can do anything for that disk. But I suspect it's hozed. Right now I am doing the Snoopy Dance of Backup Happiness. 68K's liberated: 4
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 19 Jun 2003 : 20:08:33
truly... I hate it when PCs toast disks like that...was it a western digital hard drive? if it's you're probably S.O.L. ... Official 68k videographer
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foetoid
Full Member
USA
554 Posts |
Posted - 19 Jun 2003 : 21:35:13
quote:
About 3 months ago I upgraded my PC, Ad Astra to W98se.Before I installed SE, I burned a back up of all my irreplaceable files. Then my husband's PC started acting wonky and I couldn't get it to format the new 40 gig HD we'd bought (because his PC had no working floppy drive), so I had to take the D: drive out of my PC (where I backed up all of my irrreplacable files) re format it, and use it to try and salvage data from his drive. I went to turn on my PC last night and ... it couldn't find my C:drive. I swapped the ribbon, I swapped busses. Nothing. Doesn't detect. I swapped in a spare drive I have and. boom! no problem. Drive detects. I'm going to swap the old drive into my G4 and see if I can do anything for that disk. But I suspect it's hozed. Right now I am doing the Snoopy Dance of Backup Happiness. 68K's liberated: 4
68Ks adopted to loving homes: 2
PowerMacs adopted: 1
can you put the other drive in as a primary slave or secondary master and see if it shows up on boot? Is it a CMOS/BIOS config problem maybe? ________________
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 19 Jun 2003 : 23:51:09
Good luck. I have a 6 gig Western Digital from my iMac, thats 4 years old, and its borked. I'm mad...i expect hard drives to last at least 6 years.  "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers
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Da Penguin
Senior Member
USA
1094 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jun 2003 : 03:52:43
My iMac's HD is working fne after over 5 years, six years this september.  Mind you it hasn't had a single defrag since we got it and runs like.....something slow, its too early to think.Good job on the backup though Kady! You always wanna kick yourself when you forget to, but when you remember you always get that lil kid "Hey I did something right!" good feeling. ~The Penguin **| Want free 68kmla email? Drop me a line |**
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shaktiman
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1226 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jun 2003 : 12:37:37
I back up to cd now quite a bit, which is handy cos I've ended up changing my set-up quite a bit,
But how do I back-up my 4.23 gig? or even larger? will a dvd do it? is a superdrive a dvd & a cd rewritable drive?I was lucky with my pc's drive as it lasted about 5 years. quote:
S.O.L.
S**t out of luck? anyhow I thought this was SOL, Speed of Light a fantastic graphics program, not for you Mac users though as far as I'm aware, ST only! I handled large jpg's with SOL on my 2.5 Meg ST 720k floppy drive only. shaktiman Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive
os 8.1
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Kady Mae
Junior Member
USA
261 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jun 2003 : 01:16:54
Why yes, it was a western digital drive. A 20 gigger.And 1) Yes, it is set to master
2) Yes the cable is put on the right way
3) Yes, I tried it on both busses. Same cable, new drive, IDE Bus #1, no problem. The drive is borked. I haven't had a chance to pop it in Glorfindel and run tech tool on it, but I think it's seriously screwed because when I looked at the disk in BIOS on the PC it couldn't find it at all. 68K's liberated: 4
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shaktiman
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1226 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jun 2003 : 14:35:11
Could we all do a review of hard drives, because there are certainly drives which I would prefer to avoid. New thread in peripherals?shaktiman Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive
os 8.1
128 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive
PPC7600/132, 4.23Gig & 500 Meg drives, 8X cd
os 8.6
Performa400(deadintheattick)
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Gothikon
Full Member
Australia
537 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jun 2003 : 16:02:59
I think there are too many drives to do something like that, the easiest thing to do is look at a drive, then google for a review, but always read more than one.Having said that, stay away from really really old drives (if you're buying, if you've got one alredy and it works then fine) and IBM deskstar drives, they are without doubt the crappiest IDE drives money can buy, SO bad IIRC they sold off their HD division after that fiasco. I've always had excellent luck with segate drives, both SCSI and IDE. Oh and Apple 6 giggers that shipped with iMacs are meant to be pretty nasty --------
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jun 2003 : 21:00:23
Western Digitals (especially those in Gateway computers) fry after so long... dunno what it is so if your computer (from the 98 era) is Gateway (you said "astra" in your first post... is it an all inone gateway? I'd love picccies of that)You might call gateway and see if your warranty is still ther? (probably not) just be glad that you backed up  Official 68k videographer
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