Harddisk problems reading it

[ElZorro]

Goodmorning,

I need to bring up this problem again.
I am trying to access my harddisk, which does not or can not pass the bootsector. It keeps clicking and spinning untill it promps: No harddisk found.

A friend made a Ghost file for me, but I am not able to access that file either.

The harddisk is a Western Digital AL2170 Caviar Lite 170MB. IDE/AT, 44 pins. Used to be in my Amiga 1200.
It has been devided in 2 partition, one for the system files, games and misc. The other partition is music. The music partition is of great personaly value. It contains (not-backuped) modules. ( (c) 1995-2004)

In the mean time I have bought a new, good working HD, but I feel the data of the old one is lost.
Is it possible to connect a second harddisk on the amiga 1200?
I have a SCSI controller on where I have connected a external HD.
Can I use this? Do I need a adapter or what?

Is there anybody out there who has been thrue the same problem and came with a brilliant idea to save the data?

please answer my desperate questions!
I will be grateful for a long time if I just could get my music back!

gr. Pieter
The Netherlands

[Thomas]

If the drive is already almost dead but still has important data on it, I would not connect it to any computer unless I have a working and proved recovery strategy. Every minute of operation will make the damage worse.

Especially as you have an image. I would only work with that image from now on.

Now that WinUAE can read VHD images, I would use VirtualPC to write the Ghost image to a VHD and then do any required recovery in WinUAE.

RDBrecov and DiskSalv are probably the tools you need to use.

Or compress the image and upload it somewhere so that somebody else can do the recovery.