Hard Drive Trashed?

[craigwojo]

Hi everyone,

 

This is sort of embarrassing to even dicuss of what happened, but here it goes –

 

Years and years of MIDI was put into this one hard drive I had with my Atari ST. The hard drive is a Quantum ProDrive ELS 120meg (huge for that time). Anyway, I took it out of the Atari system and hooked it up to the PC through SCSI and Gemulator Explorer. First of all the hard drive was partitioned in 6 parts. Sizes?, I really don’t remember. But when I had it in Gemulator Explorer (OS was WIN98SE), I only saw the boot partition. Within Gemulator Explorer I made a image of the drive. I don’t know if it copied all partitions or not. But the size shows that 120megs were used in the image. The partitions 2, 3, 4 & 5 had all of my MIDI files on it.

 

Here is what happenend that I think really screwed up the drive. Within GemExplor I clicked write instead of create image. We’ll I stopped it as soon as I could. (I think I over wrote the boot sector) I cannot read it or write to it in either GemExplor or with the Atari St system. I can see it in Desktop Manager as a drive, it does spin and just slows down to a stop. I don’t hear it writing or reading the disk though. I even tried to format it so I could try to write the image back on it but no luck. Tried fdisk, disk repair program, and other ways.

 

Do you think the drive is bad? Can it be repaired?

Also, when you make an image in Gemulator Explorer, does it write all of the partitions?

 

Anyone with some answers? TIA to all.

 

Thank you,

Craig