Hard drive failure!!

[BigSqwert]

Hey everyone,

 

I have a huge favor to ask. My external hard drive is not working. I turn it on and all I hear is a clicking noise and the PC will not recognize the drive in windows explorer. I have tons of music and video files on the hard drive that I worked way too hard to compile over the last few years.

Do you or anyone you know have experience recovering files from a faulty hard drive? Do you know anyone who does that sort of thing for a living? Please help me before I shoot myself!!

 

Note: I definitely learned my lesson and will backup files regularly in the future.

 

Thanks,

BigSqwert

[southsideirish71]

Hey everyone,

 

I have a huge favor to ask. My external hard drive is not working. I turn it on and all I hear is a clicking noise and the PC will not recognize the drive in windows explorer. I have tons of music and video files on the hard drive that I worked way too hard to compile over the last few years.

Do you or anyone you know have experience recovering files from a faulty hard drive? Do you know anyone who does that sort of thing for a living? Please help me before I shoot myself!!

 

Note: I definitely learned my lesson and will backup files regularly in the future.

 

Thanks,

BigSqwert

 

The clicking noise is not good. If it was a business I would suggest just sending in to a recovery center and having them recover your data. But your MP3s and Video probably dont justify the cost.

 

There are a few ways, and they have worked in some fashion or another. Sometimes the drive's rocker arm is physically bad and you cant do anything with it. Most of the time, its an error that can be overcome with the following things.

 

The two ways that have worked for me when having a knock is to freeze the drive, or to rap on the drive. Freezing the drive is as simple as it sounds Remove the hard drive, place it in a plastic bag, then put it in your freezer for about 24 hours. Then take it out, and boot off of it. When it comes up, make sure you have a disk to copy your data to.

 

The other way, is to rap your fist slightly mind you on the drive, and sometimes it will spin up. In the old large SCSI disk days, we used to slam the SCSI disk down hard, to reset the rocker arm. Sometimes it would work. Else we were going to backup tape.

 

Hope this works, and good luck. Data loss makes a backup believer out of anyone.

 

 

200 ways to recover

 

 

 

 

 

 

[knightni]

Hey everyone,

 

I have a huge favor to ask. My external hard drive is not working. I turn it on and all I hear is a clicking noise and the PC will not recognize the drive in windows explorer. I have tons of music and video files on the hard drive that I worked way too hard to compile over the last few years.

Do you or anyone you know have experience recovering files from a faulty hard drive? Do you know anyone who does that sort of thing for a living? Please help me before I shoot myself!!

 

Note: I definitely learned my lesson and will backup files regularly in the future.

 

Thanks,

BigSqwert

 

Hillary's flying minions are attacking your motherboard.

 

[knightni]

Take it to a computer shop ASAP.

 

They may be able to save your data if you don't try and boot your computer up.

[BigSqwert]

Thanks guys.

[sox4lifeinPA]

tough luck to have "hard drive failures" for someone named "bigsqwert"

 

 

 

 

 

[BigSqwert]

The clicking noise is not good. If it was a business I would suggest just sending in to a recovery center and having them recover your data. But your MP3s and Video probably dont justify the cost.

 

There are a few ways, and they have worked in some fashion or another. Sometimes the drive's rocker arm is physically bad and you cant do anything with it. Most of the time, its an error that can be overcome with the following things.

 

The two ways that have worked for me when having a knock is to freeze the drive, or to rap on the drive. Freezing the drive is as simple as it sounds Remove the hard drive, place it in a plastic bag, then put it in your freezer for about 24 hours. Then take it out, and boot off of it. When it comes up, make sure you have a disk to copy your data to.

 

The other way, is to rap your fist slightly mind you on the drive, and sometimes it will spin up. In the old large SCSI disk days, we used to slam the SCSI disk down hard, to reset the rocker arm. Sometimes it would work. Else we were going to backup tape.

 

Hope this works, and good luck. Data loss makes a backup believer out of anyone.

200 ways to recover

I tried the freezing method and was able to get it to run for a few minutes. I was able to copy over 21 albums from my music folder before it stopped. I tried freezing it again and connecting it but it would not work.