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- Dec 26, 2004
Okay, so BOTH of my 160GB WD Caviar SE drives decided to die on me a couple days ago. I have done nothing at all to cause any problems with them. Strange they BOTH died at the same time. Standard clicking.
Eventually, my computer stopped booting into Windows. I'm not too bummed about getting new drives (I would rather WD would honor the warranty, but I don't have an receipts as I bought the drives from OCF... albeit in factory sealed boxes). I just need to get my data off the drive.
Knoppix Live-CD detects the drives and sees all of my data... however I can't copy it over to a removable drive (my MP3 player, for instance)... i don't know why but it just didn't work.
They are in a RAID 0 Array... would it be possible for me to move the array to another computer? I could plug both drives into my neighbor's computer no problem... the problem is, will I be able to maintain that array on another computer? The BIOS would detect the drives no problem, but it would most likely leave them in IDE mode.
Windows won't boot, and windows setup (recovery console and just plain old setup) will not detect the drives. It doesn't ask me to login to a specific windows installation in the recovery console, just brings me to a C:\ prompt.
A bit of background:
I bought the drives October of 2006. They were factory sealed in the retail WD boxes. I bought the drives for $120 shipped. The warranty from WD is one year from purchase date. I checked the drive warranties on WD's website, and it said they were out of warranty on April 4th. They will extend warranties if I can prove the purchase date... however, I got the drives not from a retailer . I e-mailed them asking if I could screenshot the FS thread as a proof of purchase (longshot). I also PMed the seller hoping he might still have a receipt of the drive's purchase. If so, hopefully the drives were purchased less than a year ago.
Anyway, any possible way for me to get my stuff off the drives?
Eventually, my computer stopped booting into Windows. I'm not too bummed about getting new drives (I would rather WD would honor the warranty, but I don't have an receipts as I bought the drives from OCF... albeit in factory sealed boxes). I just need to get my data off the drive.
Knoppix Live-CD detects the drives and sees all of my data... however I can't copy it over to a removable drive (my MP3 player, for instance)... i don't know why but it just didn't work.
They are in a RAID 0 Array... would it be possible for me to move the array to another computer? I could plug both drives into my neighbor's computer no problem... the problem is, will I be able to maintain that array on another computer? The BIOS would detect the drives no problem, but it would most likely leave them in IDE mode.
Windows won't boot, and windows setup (recovery console and just plain old setup) will not detect the drives. It doesn't ask me to login to a specific windows installation in the recovery console, just brings me to a C:\ prompt.
A bit of background:
I bought the drives October of 2006. They were factory sealed in the retail WD boxes. I bought the drives for $120 shipped. The warranty from WD is one year from purchase date. I checked the drive warranties on WD's website, and it said they were out of warranty on April 4th. They will extend warranties if I can prove the purchase date... however, I got the drives not from a retailer . I e-mailed them asking if I could screenshot the FS thread as a proof of purchase (longshot). I also PMed the seller hoping he might still have a receipt of the drive's purchase. If so, hopefully the drives were purchased less than a year ago.
Anyway, any possible way for me to get my stuff off the drives?