a quick one--

[Pedro_The_Swift]

what would have been the warranty period of a SAMSUNG SP2014N HDD sold 18 months ago,,

[incisor]

contact the mob you bought it from :P

or

Samsung Warranty Form (http://customercare.samsungportal.com/mysupport/au/register/step1.asp)

PS looks like 3yrs

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Ta!

[Pedro_The_Swift]

so, when the drive is out of the caddy,,it runs fines when connected internally,,,though I had to change the jumper from one end to the other--

but when installed externally XP sees a mass storage device but cant pick the external drives up???

[Pedro_The_Swift]

apparently the caddy only has a12 month warranty,,
naturally.


so I've bolted it in internally, set its jumper to slave, put it on the END of the IDE cable,, (so both drives on one cable)

comes up as slave on boot,

open system and its listed as LOCAL D

and wants me to format it,,,

WTF ??

[incisor]

apart from the format it sounds normal

was there data on it? and what format was it?

[incisor]

gotta run, local radio station just lost their network.. bbl.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

re-ran ide cable to have master drive on the end,
what a drama!!
tied the cable in knots:D

and nothing changed.



there is an image of my C drive on the slave drive,,
could that be stuffing things up?

there is 60gb of music on there, so I'd rather not format it---

[Pedro_The_Swift]

inside disc management it shows one only partition (a primary) of 31.5gb,,

its a 200gb drive.
partitioned off 4 ways,, none were 31.5.


inside system devices after I populated the volume,
it shows it as a Master boot Record,,
and 31.5gb

[Grizzly_Adams]

What was the caddy?

I had a 300Gb Maxtor OneTouch that died on my recently. I took the drive out of the caddy and mounted it in my PC, no diff.

So I bought some file-rescue software which recovered all my files wonderfully :) and reformatted the drive. Seems to be working fine for now but will only use it for temporary bits and pieces in case it stuffs up again.

When I get home I can let you know the software I got, it has a trial version that lets you see what files it can recover so you can 'try before you buy'.

[incisor]

cable position only makes a difference if you have the hard drives jumpered to cable select (CS)

odd behaviour what file systems ? ntfs or fat32 or ?

extended partitions or multiple primaries or ?

hmmmm sounds like the external controller did some sort of translation or the file systems are shot...

got a mac handy, you can usually fix it in no time flat :P

[incisor]

When I get home I can let you know the software I got, it has a trial version that lets you see what files it can recover so you can 'try before you buy'.

hirens boot cd does it for nothing...

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Thanks Inc,,

I'd hate to lose the music,,,


so---
are they back on the "air"??
:D

[incisor]

yeah, easy peasy, done in 5 minutes

[Grizzly_Adams]

For what it's worth I used "Recovery My Files (http://www.recovermyfiles.com)".

Worked a treat :)