Dead drive recovery?

BobsYourUncle · 10-23-2008, 05:49 AM

I have an old Fujitsu MPE3170AT IDE 17 Gig that I am trying to recover 3 years of pictures from for a niece.

Has any of you had success in this process?

To be more specific, when I hook the drive up as a secondary master, it shows as scrambled hieroglyphics on the POST screen, followed by Secondary Master Failure. It won't show in Windows. It also won't show in a coouple recovery software programs I have tried.

In the BIOS it shows as a 2 Meg drive with the sectors etc. at low incorrect numbers.

The drive runs - it spins up and I can feel it humming, so I know its running. There are no bad noises or clicking of the heads banging something so its operation is smooth.

Something is very scrambled / corrupt and I would really like to help her by getting the pics back.

Has anybody performed such a task or KNOW how to go about doing it?

Sending it out to an expensive data recovery place is out of the question.

Thanks.

10-23-2008, 05:49 AM	#1 (permalink)
BobsYourUncle Bronze Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Surrey BC Canada Age: 55 Posts: 40	Dead drive recovery? I have an old Fujitsu MPE3170AT IDE 17 Gig that I am trying to recover 3 years of pictures from for a niece. Has any of you had success in this process? To be more specific, when I hook the drive up as a secondary master, it shows as scrambled hieroglyphics on the POST screen, followed by Secondary Master Failure. It won't show in Windows. It also won't show in a coouple recovery software programs I have tried. In the BIOS it shows as a 2 Meg drive with the sectors etc. at low incorrect numbers. The drive runs - it spins up and I can feel it humming, so I know its running. There are no bad noises or clicking of the heads banging something so its operation is smooth. Something is very scrambled / corrupt and I would really like to help her by getting the pics back. Has anybody performed such a task or KNOW how to go about doing it? Sending it out to an expensive data recovery place is out of the question. Thanks.

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