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| 571485 | 2007-07-22 09:54:00 | Hello members, I was just curious of my partners computer as the screensaver pictures did stop rotating. I had no chance of actiavting it so I did a restart, and to my surprise.. it does not load, just a clonk noise in regular time interval just about like a clock. Question: is the HDD dead? Any suggestions? Any chances on rescuing something? Would it be an option of placing it in a USB/HDD enclosure and try it? Thanks NT |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 571486 | 2007-07-22 10:17:00 | In my experience the ol' clonk noise is a fatal. It's continually trying to find track 0 but can't do so. But it certainly would do no harm to confirm that it is the HDD with the problem by trying it in a USB enclosure. Had a similar one a while back and tried it in another machine just for confirmation. Guess it's about now that you take a lot more interest in backups?:groan: Hopefully, you are a conscientious type, though. Good luck. |
linw (53) | ||
| 571487 | 2007-07-22 10:25:00 | In my experience the ol' clonk noise is a fatal. It's continually trying to find track 0 but can't do so. But it certainly would do no harm to confirm that it is the HDD with the problem by trying it in a USB enclosure. Had a similar one a while back and tried it in another machine just for confirmation. Guess it's about now that you take a lot more interest in backups?:groan: Hopefully, you are a conscientious type, though. Good luck. Thanks I suspected that I would not get to much of apositive reply? It is my partners machine and ...no backups at all. To bad, a hard lesson then. Placing it in an USB enclosure is quite a fast job for this purpose. Is there no chance of any recovery? NT |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 571488 | 2007-07-22 11:43:00 | Thanks I suspected that I would not get to much of apositive reply? It is my partners machine and ...no backups at all. To bad, a hard lesson then. Placing it in an USB enclosure is quite a fast job for this purpose. Is there no chance of any recovery? NT I had one do the same- linw is correct, it's dead and will in future make a good doorstop. If you really need the info off it a specialist could possibly do something, but it would be expensive/time consuming. |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 571489 | 2007-07-22 20:50:00 | just a clonk noise in regular time interval just about like a clock. Question: is the HDD dead? Yes. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 571490 | 2007-07-23 01:45:00 | as a last resort, if it doesn't magically start working, you could try the "stick it in a sealed bag, in the freezer overnight" Did this on a quantum once (not critical data, but I felt like testing the method on a screwy drive), it read the data a bit better for a few minutes then totally died. If you are crazy enough to try that, make sure you have your PC up and running with it ready to copy data, then shove the drive into the USB, and recover whatever is most important as quickly as possible, if it actually stops clunking and starts reading |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 571491 | 2007-07-23 02:15:00 | Nothing to lose by trying the old freezer trick. Debatable whether it'll go long enough to copy any meaningful amount of data, though. As shortcircuit says, a specialist firm could do it but at a largish cost. |
linw (53) | ||
| 571492 | 2007-07-23 05:17:00 | you could buy a new pc for the cost of a specialist data recovery service :( the freezer trick may work if its the disk surface failing, but if it's a mechanical or electronic failure then it won't help. Bung it in the USB enclosure and see what happens - nothing to lose |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 571493 | 2007-07-23 08:02:00 | You could also try finding another drive the same and swapping the board out, or even the heads if you feel you're crazy enough, you could try that after you try freezing it, but please don't go ahead and try anything like that straight off... There's a very small chance it could be a bad power connection, in which case the head clunk could be the whole drive turning off rather than a track 0 error |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 571494 | 2007-07-23 08:12:00 | ...or even the heads if you feel you're crazy enough...That is an incredibly stupid idea, unless you have a HDD manufacturer-level clean environment in which to work (and even then it's not too bright). Just one tiny speck of dust on the platters can cause the whole thing to completely self-destruct as soon as you switch it on, and annihilate pretty much any chance of a recovery company retrieving anything. If the platters are physically damaged, there's not a lot that anyone can do. Don't open the drive yourself unless you've completely given up on recovering any data off it. |
Erayd (23) | ||
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