V Green wrote:
> "Jim" <j.n@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:SPqQi.12878$JD.7733@newssvr21.news.prodigy.ne t...
>> "John" <John@falseaddress.com> wrote in message
>> news:471191ea$1@clear.net.nz...
>>> This is a Sony PCG 9A4N. It's a Japanese key board model (My wife is
>>> Japanese).
>>> I took the cmos battery out but not for more than a few minutes and it
>>> didn't loose its date... It could have been 5 minutes or so???
>>> I have to wait until she comes home before I attack it further.
>>> When it attempts to find the operating system I hear "tap, tap tap tap
>>> tap"
>> You are hearing the sound of a dead drive.
>> Jim
>
> A-yup. Happened to me last month on one of two
> 60G IBM's in a RAID-0 array.
>
> I got lucky - let the system set for a day, deleted and
> recreated the RAID array in the BIOS, and was able
> to access it long enough to scrape the data off of it
> before replacing it.
>
>>
>
>
I forgot to take the main battery out when I removed the CMOS battery,
so I'm trying it again. How do you delete and recreat the RAID????

The laptop booted on Knoppix and then wouldn't, meanwhile it would start
on the Rescue Disk but not boot (ie if it can do that the Knoppix CD
should boot up)?????????????
At this point in time my wife is going to get one of her friends to
take the hard-disk out and test it.