Help me retrieve data of a SCSI Drive...

[rana]

Hi Guys,

Somone gave me a Fijitsu SCSI HDD to retrieve data from...

I have bought a SCSI interface card and have insatlled it....I run WinXP so the Adaptec SCSI Controller was automatically insatlled....it also shows up in the BIOS as SCSI Device...

I have connected the Fijitsu HDD to the controller and when I enter the controllers BIOS, I can see that the Fijitsu drive is connected to the controller and has an ID of 2....However, The jumper on the harddrive is set to an ID of 1...

So...Nothing shows up in "My Computer" even though the Adapter controller is recognized by WinXP and the Hard drive is detected by the controller...

Any suggestions?

Let me know if you need any more details...

[unhappy_mage]

What shows up in Disk Management? Start->Run->"diskmgmt.msc"

What positions are the jumpers in? You probably have three or four jumpers. Think of them as adding 8, 4, 2, and 1:
jumper number: 0 1 2 3
value added: 1 2 4 8
(these values could, of course, be the other direction)
So if you have the jumper anywhere but on the very end, it's no surprise that it's not showing up as ID 1.

[rana]

There is only one Jumper on the harddrive itself....however, I didn't check if there were any jumpers on the Controller card...so if that is what you are reffering to..

I will check once I get off work...

[unhappy_mage]

The drive may have additional jumpers on the front or the bottom (or on the 68->80 pin adapter, if you're using one). It's more or less irrelevant; as long as the drive detects properly, it doesn't matter what ID it's on. Check Disk Management.

[rana]

Ok...

So I changed the Jumper on the Hard drive and I ran diskmgmt...

As I ran it, a window popped up asking me to Intitiliaze and convert the Disk....I only Initialized it....

It shows up in the Disk section of the Disk Management window but it does not show up in the Volume section...

Should I convert it to a dynamic disk? Will I be able to acces the files then?

[rana]

Ok....

It seems that the entire space on the Harddrive is unallocated..(i am getting this from the graphic display of Disk Management)....but that seems odd as there is supposed to be data on there...?

Maybe if I create a new partition...?

:confused:

[trmentry]

If there is data on there, and you create a partition that would be bad.

what was the system formated as. windows won't see it except as ready for a partition if it had a *nix filesystem on it.

This may help. Its a ext2/3 driver for windows that will allow you to see those file system types.

http://www.fs-driver.org/

Was very handy for me to recover data from a linux box with a windows machine at work

If it was formated with a differnet file system, I'm not sure where to point you. Ask your friend what kind of machine it came out of.

[davidlem]

Could still be an unrecognized Windows partition. Remember, someone wanted data recovered from it which could mean it isn't working properly. Goto r-studio.com and get their 3.6 demo then try to scan the drive for NTFS/FAT32/EXT2-3 data. Might just have a screwed partition that Windows doesn't know how to handle.

[rana]

^ Thanks!

The R Studio 3.6 Demo Worked. I was able to Scan and then access all the files on the harddrive...

Now I just need to save them to my computer but the Demo has a limit of 64kb file sizes and I have 8.5 gb to save...

Is there any other way? Or will I have to buy the liscence?

[rana]

Alright....the drive came out of a MAC....

Is there any program that will let me transfer the data from this drive to my other hard drive for free?

I really don't want to spent $100 or so for the R Studio program if there is a free alternative (I will spend the money incase I cant find a free one..)

Thanks!

[coolie_d]

i'm assuming you're planning on charging this person for your services, considering you've invested in a SCSI controller card and all? i'd say just pay for the license and add it on to your bill for services/parts, it seems like the program will do what you need...... if there happens to be anything mechanically FUBARd in the drive which caused the initial data loss, you'd probably be wise to recover as much as you can as soon as you can........