IBM 26480 - Bios not detect it - someone delete somethink !!!

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Hi

Have problem with 26480 HDD. Someone want to delete all information
(data security) and delte es so that the drive is not more detected by
bios .
How to repair it ?? maby somone can help ??

Thank You
Agnes
 
collector said:
Hi

Have problem with 26480 HDD. Someone want to delete all information
(data security) and delte es so that the drive is not more detected by
bios .
How to repair it ?? maby somone can help ??

Thank You
Agnes
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Hello Agnes.

I'm not sure what your problem is. Are you trying to recover data or are you
trying to get the drive reformatted?

I think in either case you might want to check out

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

- I know it says Hitachi, but Hitachi and IBM are in a strategic alliance.
The tool on this page, "Drive Fitness Test", is for both IBM and Hitachi
drives. I *think* it can be used for low-level formatting your drive. I
used a similar utility to low-level format a Maxtor drive that was
completely ruined by Windows.

Try it out, and let's know what happens.
 
collector said:
The problem is .. BIOS do not see the drive !!!!

:-((
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Yes, but is there data on the drive that you need to get back? In that case,
GetDataBack is actually pretty good. There's a lot of utilities, though.
 
DanielEKFA said:
Yes, but is there data on the drive that you need to get back? In that
case, GetDataBack is actually pretty good. There's a lot of utilities,
though.
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Oh, and just for the record, the drive of mine that Windows killed wasn't
detected in the BIOS or in Windows either. Still got it back using the
Maxtor low-formatting tool. I have no idea how Windows could screw it up so
bad, but somehow it did. Worked perfectly afterwards though... I really
think you should try to download the program I gave you a URL for, and then
see what it says. It's a diagnostics utility first and foremost.
 
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