broken hard disk drive

Richie-from-the-Boro

googler wrote: »

I tried Seagate tools on CD to analyse a drive once.... but I found that it wouldn't analyse anything but the primary (C:) drive on my machine.

What I wanted to do was analyse a non-bootable slave drive, with a non-windows, non-Linux, non-Mac OS, either attached as a slave to an IDE channel, or in an external HDD enclosure.

Does anyone know of any downloadable disk utilities that will do this?

If an ambulance on a blue light job goes past, you will hear the hirens

googler

Why would they be coming to take me away? (assuming that's what you mean.....)

aardware

Sorry, been on holiday.

Thats a slightly archaic but fairly typical "veteran" attitude Richie, although I can understand it, as I know one or two people myself who have achieved their certifications through braindumps etc, and who aren't that good at their jobs. I am not one of those people.

I also know a few people who have many years in the field as well, who, like yourself, don't have and don't believe in certifications. They are just as capable of making errors and in some cases, had they asked people like me, those errors might have been avoided. The shoe, you might say, fits both feet.

My signature is not there to make me look important, it is there to indicate to the people I am trying to help that I do at least have some grounding and basis on which to give them advice. Whilst you have a reasonably high thank count to indicate this, and the amount of time you have to spend posting on here, I am a relatively new poster, and do not have such a luxury, and am too busy fixing computers in the real world to attain such a thank count any time soon.

You do seem fairly trollish however, so I think its best if you ignore me and I ignore you from now on.

weegie.geek

Is there something missing from this thread?

I'm baffled.

@ OP - Hiren's Boot CD should have tools to analyse just about any drive.

JasX

aardware wrote: »

Sorry, been on holiday.

can you go back please?

Wern't you the fool causing trouble in the norton thread two weeks back too....

...ahh yes, looking at your post history you are one and the same

Richie-from-the-Boro

weegie.geek wrote: »

Is there something missing from this thread?

I'm baffled.

@ OP - Hiren's Boot CD should have tools to analyse just about any drive.

I gave the clue in "" Last edited by Richie-from-the-Boro; 18-06-2010 at 12:52 AM. Reason: spelling hirens should be sirens "" .. .. .. completely missed by googler.

aardware's 22 year old abilities, experiences and interpersonal skills go together like peaches and creosote. He is, regardless of his abilities / expertise, functionally redundant, and probably unemployable unless he can afford to own the company he work's for.

In general terms he is exactly the kind of applicant I would never employ, hopefully would never even waste my valuable time interviewing.

In group terms he is:

- is and intentionally wants to be / adjacent, but not nessesarily connected to this group.
- has an almost aristocratic pursuit of your own self
- appears to be beset by a whole range of discontents and confusions
- see himself as a combination of Jesus Christ and Winston Churchill
- seems devoted to the proposition that he is correct, so everone else must, by his own elevated standard, be wrong
- suffers from a chaos of individualism, and appears to be going over the falls of self belief without a barrel

On the positive side he did change his pretentious sig line after the last debarcle and his then more moderate posting style led me to hope he would begin to use his abilities to the benefit of the group as a whole.

On the negative side I'm shocked that he has dug up this thread as a continuum for his protestations. The line "" Sorry, been on holiday. "" is one more disingenuous input he was seen by me to have been reading the thread 4 times in the two days after the posts were made.

In addition then to the 6 or so personal issues above I think I can safety add the fact that aardware tells hockey's :eek: