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| Invoke Uficle: Reviving hard drive, part 2 |
by jdelphiki |
2011-08-29 17:56:34 |
So...following the excellent advice of the wise and mighty Uficle, I downloaded TestDisk and PhotoRec and am trying to revive the on-its-way-out from our old Dell desktop. Basically, the drive has a bunch of family pictures we want to save if we can.
I have an old BAFO disk enclosure (BF-2003) that has been able to spin up the drive...and when it does, the drive doesn't *always* make noise... ;) As long as the drive spins up quietly, my Windows 7 laptop is able to see the enclosure...but it thinks the drive beyond it is unformatted. That suggests that the data on the drive is restorable with a tool like TestDisk, but now, the problem....
My BAFO enclosure is something I bought, evidently, back with Windows ME was the latest and greatest. The BAFO website shows me that. Ugh.
So when I try to use TestDisk, the BAFO won't let me see any drive larger than 137GB...the old limit for ancient, pathetic Windows operating systems. The drive I'm trying to recover is 250 GB.
Does anyone know of a way of tricking ol' BAFO into seeing the full drive size, or do I need to get a new enclosure or USB-to-drive connector? |
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If the controller isn't smart enough to understand | by InTrinsiC | 2011-08-29 18:02:33 |
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Yes, the firmware in that enclosure is a problem. | by twixt | 2011-08-29 18:56:53 |
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is it a SATA or IDE drive? | by Hieraco | 2011-08-29 18:40:00 |
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Tried to send you an email but Yahoo bounced it | by Hieraco | 2011-08-29 19:11:03 |
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as said before, *don't* use an external enclosure | by Freakazoid | 2011-08-29 19:48:09 |
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