Associate
- Joined
- 19 Jun 2003
- Posts
- 1,680
- Location
- West Yorks, UK
Hi folks,
My Uncle has a 250GB Maxtor IDE hard drive that has gone a bit duff. It was from a PikaOne USB enclosure thingy. He has it loaded up with data, but it has started to play up. We took the drive out of the enclosure and plugged it straight into the IDE port on a PC. The drive appears in the BIOS, but won't show up in Windows or any other bits of software. Norton Ghost gives the error "IDE controller error" when it is loaded.
I'm guessing this is referring to the circuitry on the bottom of the disc, and that perhaps the actual data storing parts are still ok. If this was the case, is it possible and feasible to swap out the circuitry from another drive so the data can be retrieved? Would it need to be the board from the same capacity, or would the one from a 40GB Maxtor (same model) be ok?
Any help greatly appreciated...
Matt
My Uncle has a 250GB Maxtor IDE hard drive that has gone a bit duff. It was from a PikaOne USB enclosure thingy. He has it loaded up with data, but it has started to play up. We took the drive out of the enclosure and plugged it straight into the IDE port on a PC. The drive appears in the BIOS, but won't show up in Windows or any other bits of software. Norton Ghost gives the error "IDE controller error" when it is loaded.
I'm guessing this is referring to the circuitry on the bottom of the disc, and that perhaps the actual data storing parts are still ok. If this was the case, is it possible and feasible to swap out the circuitry from another drive so the data can be retrieved? Would it need to be the board from the same capacity, or would the one from a 40GB Maxtor (same model) be ok?
Any help greatly appreciated...
Matt