IC35L060AVER07-0 failure

gengbai72 · 04-20-2005, 12:57 PM

Hi Folks,

My hard disk failured two days ago. It is notorious IBM
IC35L060AVER07-0 (60G).

I bought a new Seagate HD yesterady and set the new one as Master drive and install XP successfully.

Then I set the old IC35L060AVER07-0 HD as slave. After I reboot the machine for the first time, I glad to find that all the data on the old HD is fine.

But after I put back the compute case, and reboot for the second time (and many, many times after). I can not find the old HD any more.

Now the behavior is following:
1) My BIOS can detect the old HD as slave, but the capacitiy is wrong (33G, instead of 60G).
2) From "Device Manager" window, "the device is working properly."
3) The old HD can still spin, and there is no abnormal noise coming from it.
4) But Window XP does not recognized the old HD. All the partition on the old HD is not shown by XP "Storage Management" and "Windows Explorer".

I have tried following thing:
1) Change HD cable
2) Plug and Unplut many many times.
3) Reboot the machine for many times.

Is there anything else I can do, or any tools I can use to recovery the data from the old HD?

Thanks a lot for your kindly help.

GB

**johnwill** · 04-20-2005, 04:01 PM

Hard to say, too bad you missed the opportunity to copy the data when it was available...

I'd temporarly remove the drives from the secondary channel of your IDE controller and connect the drive as the only master. Sometimes, different drives will have conflicts, and if the drive is starting to fail, it could be worse. Put it by itself, hopefully you can recover something from it.

04-20-2005, 12:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
gengbai72 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1 OS: xp	IC35L060AVER07-0 failure Hi Folks, My hard disk failured two days ago. It is notorious IBM IC35L060AVER07-0 (60G). I bought a new Seagate HD yesterady and set the new one as Master drive and install XP successfully. Then I set the old IC35L060AVER07-0 HD as slave. After I reboot the machine for the first time, I glad to find that all the data on the old HD is fine. But after I put back the compute case, and reboot for the second time (and many, many times after). I can not find the old HD any more. Now the behavior is following: 1) My BIOS can detect the old HD as slave, but the capacitiy is wrong (33G, instead of 60G). 2) From "Device Manager" window, "the device is working properly." 3) The old HD can still spin, and there is no abnormal noise coming from it. 4) But Window XP does not recognized the old HD. All the partition on the old HD is not shown by XP "Storage Management" and "Windows Explorer". I have tried following thing: 1) Change HD cable 2) Plug and Unplut many many times. 3) Reboot the machine for many times. Is there anything else I can do, or any tools I can use to recovery the data from the old HD? Thanks a lot for your kindly help. GB

04-20-2005, 04:01 PM	#2 (permalink)
johnwill Manager, Networking Forums Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania, US Posts: 41,787 OS: Windows 7, XP-Pro, Vista, Linux Blog Entries: 1	Hard to say, too bad you missed the opportunity to copy the data when it was available... I'd temporarly remove the drives from the secondary channel of your IDE controller and connect the drive as the only master. Sometimes, different drives will have conflicts, and if the drive is starting to fail, it could be worse. Put it by itself, hopefully you can recover something from it. __________________ If TSF has helped you, Tell us about it! or Donate to help keep the site up! Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience