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 Seagate 20Gb IDE EIDE 35 Hard Disk ST320410A 9T7001 301  US $24.95
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 Seagate 20Gb IDE EIDE Hard Disk ST320014A 9W1021 301 US $24.95
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 Seagate 20Gb IDE EIDE Hard Disk ST320414A 9R3004 301 US $24.95
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 Western Digital 20Gb IDE Hard Disk WD200 WD200EB 11BHF0 US $24.95
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 Western Digital 10Gb IDE Hard Disk 102AA WD102AA 00NA0 US $24.95
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 Quantum 84Gb IDE Hard Disk 5500847 CR84A2F1 Rev 01 N US $24.95
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 Trigem 20Gb IDE Hard Disk SV2001H SV2001H TGE QN100 07 US $24.95
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 Western Digital 20Gb IDE Hard Disk WD200 WD200BB 00CAA1 US $24.95
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 12V 5V AC Adapter Power Supply HDD HARD DISK DRIVE IDE US $22.58
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 4 PIN IDE 35 HDD DVD 12V5V DC AC PSU Power Adapter 9C US $1.79
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 4 PIN MOLEX IDE 25 HDD DVD 12V 5V DC AC Power Supply US $1.49
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 4 PIN IDE 25 HDD DVD 12V5V DC AC Power Supply US $1.40
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DIY Data Recovery Only If You Are Happy To Lose It All
When money is tight often we are all tempted to do those little repairs that we would other wise get professional help to do and data recovery is no exception. Quite often data recovery are presented with hard drives that have been opened in an unsafe environment and also drive that have sustained further data loss through incorrect use of DIY recovery software.
In most cases this software will be a hard drive recovery programme for a hard disk drive that has suffered from some form of logical table corruption and will not assist with
- Mechanically failed devices
- Degraded hard Disk Drives
- Devices with electronic failures
This software will of course not be able to help and if the drive is degraded or suffering from a mechanical failure attempting to run this software will in most cases cause further damage to hard disk drives, potentially making the disk unrecoverable.
The software itself is very often very reasonable priced – usually under $100 but is only good for one purpose to recover either deleted or logically failed drives, so if you are not sure what you are doing trying to do a self recovery can in the long run cost a lot more.
There are of course a lot of IT experts around of course and you may even have some in your own business, but do they really know what they are doing when it comes to the serious issue of data recovery? You would think that your onsite IT support would be data aware bit this is quite often simply not the case.
In a typical case a drive was initially presented for diagnosis and duly diagnosed with a blown PCB - the drive seemed completely dead and would not spin at all. As an additional test a new PCB was placed on the board so that the response of the heads could be tested. The result of this test was that the heads appeared to have been "blown" by a power surge through the drive.
Upon further discussion, with the client, it transpired that the IT dept had decided to remove the HDD from the laptop and as it was an IDE device mount it as an external storage device by using an IDE connector. Unfortunately they plugged the HDD to the connector "upside down" meaning that crucially the drive received a huge power spike through it when the connector was hooked up to a PC.
It may well have been in this particular scenario that the actual problem could have been no more a few bad sectors on the disk, however due to a certain level of incompetence within this department what originally was more than likely a simple job for a data professional turned into a much more costly full drive rebuild.
Many businesses need to get their data back as quickly as possibly so it is quite frustrating to have additional costs and additional downtime whilst you are waiting for data to be recovered
Sadly this is not an isolated case and data recovery companies the world over will have a whol;e collection of stories where simple recoveries were turned into data disasters by the DIY and have a go brigade
So the moral of this is that whilst many people will look for a quick and cheap fix for their hard drive recovery problems, they really are best leaving it to the experts.
How do I install multiple SATA hdd's?
I have a Seagate Barracuda 300gb drive as my main system disk. This is becoming full, and also will no longer defrag properly. On previous systems I have just added another HDD (IDE Connector) but now I'm confused. Have bought a Hitachi 500gb SATA hdd, installed it, no problem. However when I go into My Computer it's not shown as a drive, but it is picked up in the control panel as working properly. I've Windows XP SP2 running, and I do really need to have both drives running together if possible. Can anyone help?
Graham R - How do I set them in slave mode - there are no jumpers on SATA HDD's?
Keith B - How do I edit RAID settings? Or am I being stupid now?
Medium Dave & CityZen - Thank you. I think it's worked (formatting as we speak 
If I could have 2 best answers then you'd both be it.
You need to format the drive first.
Edit: You can't set a SATA drive as slave. It needs it's own dedicated channel
NetBSD/dreamcast with IDE HDD and NE2000
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