[olug] Dell 600m hard-drive problem

[Kelly Williams]

If data was a problem getting off the hard drive try finding the same 
hard drive and use the circuit board from the other hard drive to 
recover.. I had to do it for a friend while back when there drive.

thats my two since.


Cheyenne Deal wrote:
> I have a drive that I could sell you if you need one. $30 for a 7200rpm 120gb sata laptop drive is not too terrible, like my spelling.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Lusk <wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 9:42 PM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Dell 600m hard-drive problem
>
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> The overall behavior indicates that the drive is failing; diagnostics may run, and check OK, as the platters are fine.  HOWEVER, the odd detection issues point to something wrong in the drive's circuitry.
> It may run for a long time like that, but I try not to press my luck in those situations.
>
>  I ran the Harry Potter books through a spell checker; none of those spells should work.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: John Serafino <programmingmoney at gmail.com>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 8:52:17 PM
> Subject: [olug] Dell 600m hard-drive problem
>
> I've got a little problem with my laptop.
> You see, GRUB, kinda started giving me "error 18".
> And after I fixed that, I still get the error. Then, when
> I boot from an ubuntu live-CD, gparted and cfdisk simply
> started telling me that I didn't have a drive. BIOS can
> detect the drive, and it must be there, because BIOS is
> executing GRUB from my drive.
>
> I googled grub and learned about error 18, and I looked
> for stuff on failing and crashed hard drives in a dell 600m.
> But the only thing any body else has been able to do is
> replace the drive.
>
> Anybody have any experiences, alternatives, suggestions
> or thoughts about this?
>
>
> Thanks!
>