Scsi Hard drive Bad?

[Alan Duquette]

I have a ultra 3 scsi that all of a sudden stopped booting and the
activity light stays lit all the time. It won't boot and is not
recognized by the scsi card correctly. If it is bad what are my
options to get data from it? It does spin but no software I have
will read it. It made a sound like it was spinning off balance. So
is the other identical drive I have but it is still working at least.
Am running windows XP and LSI 160 scsi card.

 

[Robotnik]

I"m not sure just from your description if it's bad or not.......but if so,
there are a few options for getting data off of it.

Some cost money, others are free.

There are data recovery places......they cost money

If you had ANOTHER identical drive (in addition to the one you have), you
could dissasemble the drives, remove the platters from the working drive,
put the platters from the NON working drive into the working drive, put it
back together, and attempt to copy all the data from there to a reliable
medium......as soon as possible. Keep in mind, this is probably a last
resort...... I've never really tried it before......it might not work at
all. Maybe I'll try that some time.

Good luck.

Nic