Hard drive failure

[Zacatac]

This is exactly why I only have my HDD on when I need them, and have a mirroring system between them, and a backup for my computer drive....

Get a G-tech RAID

[Customjob]

that is all

[HeavyMetal]

Will i can try to recover it, i have the powa

i do this a lot at work, not a 100% garanty but there is a chance

even with a physical drive failure?? (or at least thats what i assume it is)

This is exactly why I only have my HDD on when I need them, and have a mirroring system between them, and a backup for my computer drive....

Get a G-tech RAID

unfortunately i cant just "turn my HDD off" when its not in use...as i am constantly accessing data from different hard drives when i am doing work with different projects

i have 6 hard drives. a mirroring system, RAID, back up drives, all are not inexpensive. my most important business projects are backed up, beyond that it is hard to corral everything

[giantsfan10]

unless its a controller failure inexpensive is somewhat out of the question. i bet someone has a class 100 clean room at their disposal.
i've sometimes seen tick of death fixed by different controller.

[HeavyMetal]

well when it failied, it started making the noise it makes when its processing or "thinking", only difference is it was about 20x louder than normal, and then windows stopped seeing it. i turned the comp off as fast as i could to prevent damage if it was damaging the platters or whatever..and unplugged it, so its just hanging out now

[giantsfan10]

i've also had limited success with freezing the drive for a couple hours in a plastic bag. yanking it and trying to extract data. drivesavers.com is the only company i've had someone say they got all their data back. unfortunately the drive size determines the price.

[Magilla]

[HeavyMetal]

i've also had limited success with freezing the drive for a couple hours in a plastic bag. yanking it and trying to extract data. drivesavers.com is the only company i've had someone say they got all their data back. unfortunately the drive size determines the price.

at least that worked out....this being my smallest HDD at 250gb

[loudobbs]

heh. sticking it in a freezer overnight sometimes works. true story.

[HeavyMetal]

heh. sticking it in a freezer overnight sometimes works. true story.

interesting..

why does that work? Lol

am i risking doing further damage by trying that?

im wary of messing with it and making my situation worse

[Lawn Guyland]

[grundlepunch]

interesting..

why does that work? Lol

am i risking doing further damage by trying that?

im wary of messing with it and making my situation worse

so it was ticking?

could be a bad sector (the read head just skips back and forth on that spot searching the the same place), that can be fixed. and the freezer this has worked for people (i;ve never done it).

if you want i can still look at it for you, not sure on the logistics on how you would get it to me. but my services would be free of charge of course

[HeavyMetal]

I dunno if i would just call it ticking, best way i can describe it is just the sequence of noise a hard drive makes under normal conditions when youre accessing it...extremely rapid varied succession of clicks, but just very loud.

i can mail it to ya dana

lemme see about the freezer trick first...i am freezing an old hard drive that crashed years ago as a test (not that important of a drive)...depending how that works I may try my current drive. i read a bunch about it on google in the meantime, seems like a possible option...

[grundlepunch]

ok, just let me know what you want to do. is it a SATA drive? looks like dis?



i have a external connecter then lets me hook it up via USB to a computer (i do a mac or Linux machine) and then a few recovery and diagnostics tools on it

[HeavyMetal]

its an IDE, def not SATA.

i have an IDE card in the comp to access my HDDs off my last computer..which is what this one was.