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[Mike McCarty]

CHERMAN at gt.rr.com wrote:

>"Having a PT which looks 'different' from the actual physical disc is
>not all that unusual. It's certainly possible that you have some kind of
>hardware failure, but not necessarily the drive. Have you tried the disc
>in a simliar computer? It could be the interface electronics."
>
>Hate to show my ignorance, but is "interface electronics" the same thing
>as the controller? It's an IDE drive and it's only been used in the one
>computer.  Except for the two crashes I mentioned, I've never had any
>trouble with it.  It would have been nice to recover a couple of things
>from the drive that I didn't back up, but there's nothing on the drive
>that I can't live without.  Thanks for your suggestion.
>
>Craig Herman
>
>  
>
The interface electronics is everything between the processor
and the disc. May include any number of devices on your motherboard,
on the controller (if separate from the motherboard), the cable
connecting...

If you want to try recovery, then I suggest a recovery CD boot. I
like Knoppix. I'm sure others would work.

Mike

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