Re: ThinkPad Hard Drive Crash - Recovery Options?

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2000 - 03:07:20 EDT


Ohhh, S#$@%^..!!!
uhh..
do a search on the web..
i did some business with a data recovery guy in connecticut last year..
sold him a hard to find HDD for parts..

but first, get drive fitness test from the IBM travelstar web site and run it
with that HDD in the machine..
then go the data recovery route..

Vincent Poy wrote:

> Greetings everyone,
>
> Last night, I was defragmenting the 14 GIG HDD on the 770Z
> 9549-8AU using Norton Utilities Speedisk 2000 when it was 98% done, the
> machine just froze so I turned it off. Upon turning it back on, I get a
> error code 174 which means that something didn't past POST so I went into
> the diagnostics and the only thing that failed is the HDD since it says
> Dev 017 Error Code 01 FRU 6010 which means either the HDD or System Board
> is dead. So I did the advanced diagnostics and it seems like the
> controller on the HDD fails. So I took the HDD and connected it to a 2.5"
> to desktop adapter and it says Primary HDD failure. Any suggestions on
> what I can do since I didn't back up any of the data and really need the
> data recovered. Got any places you would recommend? Thanks.
>
> Cheers,
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