Topic: operating system not found - HELP!!

[btaactive]

Hi All,

learning more. I was using the HP hardware raid and not getting any notifications. I think the SME software raid will take care of that.

Drives were seagate barracudas. 500gb.

$700 was pretty reasonable. They got everything, so in theory, I could just plugin and it would work, BUT I was on 7.6, so have used this opportunity to go to 8.1, fresh drives etc... now just copying things as needed.

They have a clean room, If i had to go down that path,, they said more like $1500 and only about 10% chance as other raid disc was really bad.

[TerryF]

You cannot safely open drives, they are hermetically sealed. It can only be done in a clean environment, sealed from normal air contaminants.
If one microscopic particle of dust gets inside, the drive surfaces are ruined.
 

Settle petal.. I was alluding to attaching the drive via external means to a USB adapter and trying to access the data..

When critical data is involved, the seemingly high cost of data recovery can be small compared to the cost of time & effort (man or woman power where possible) to recreate the data.

When all seems lost and there is absolutely nothing else to do, and its to expensive anyway, I like to try stuff, like this:
Once resurrected a dead Seagate 320gb drive that had failed due to a firmware bug, have a read of this, interesting and just a little fun to try and even better when it succeeds, it did

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/

Don't get me wrong, if the data is "money" give to the pros, it just depends how much you want or are prepared to pay. Its just I am water tight 

[TerryF]

Heres a good You tube vid on the procedure.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqC4VNHkjvc