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| Thread ID: 72924 | 2006-10-01 02:24:00 | hardware trouble- Hard Drive (slave) Clicking!? | Sync_88k (9584) | Press F1 |
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| 488390 | 2006-10-01 02:24:00 | I've got this Seagate Barracudda 120GB 7200.7 series ATA Hard Drive, as a storage slave. ST3120022A. It was added to my computer late last year, it never had any trouble with reading/writing, untill this catastrophic disaster.. When i turned on the computer (a few weeks ago now), i noticed that boot time has significantly increased. The Bios post test would take at least a couple of minutes to complete, when at the 'detecting IDE drives' stage. When finished, it displays "Primary Slave- none?!?" also, clicking from within the computer case was heard, this noise was unlike the usual hard drive activity thrashing sound, but more of a series of random sharp clicks./ it continued to click after windows was booted into. but this time, when i clicked into 'my computer' something was seriously wrong when the "E:\ " was missing. naturally at this stage, i restarted a few times, and tried the same drive in the downstairs computer- but still no luck. This is a terrible catastrphe, since all my own personal files, music, movies, the family's photos was stored on this drive, i contemplated hiring a Data Recovery service, but after a quote from a company, who i delivered the Hard Drive to, they 'scanned' it, and said the data was recoverable. but it was to cost $600. any suggestions on what to do now? is it also possible to do a recovery youself? but im thinking it would be sorta hard seeing the comouter dosent even pick up the darn thing. |
Sync_88k (9584) | ||
| 488391 | 2006-10-01 04:06:00 | Pay yer $$$ and next time do some backups. If you can't see the hard drive in your BIOS, then usually there is no hope of an OS seeing it either (I use Knoppix to retrieve data off dying hard drives).. The only other chance is find an exact matching model and swap the circuit board on the hard drive. Otherwise you need your own clean room, etc, etc. $600 is actually cheap.. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 488392 | 2006-10-01 04:14:00 | any suggestions on what to do now? is it also possible to do a recovery youself? but im thinking it would be sorta hard seeing the comouter dosent even pick up the darn thing. There are programs that do this, (data reccovery), but most arent free. I've got one here (oo disk recovery). Its on the hdd, but I havent had to use it yet). |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 488393 | 2006-10-01 04:17:00 | You can't recover it yourself. Is your data worth $600 to you? Hard drives are probably the most commonly failing component in a PC because they have moving parts. If you have critical data, you need to back it up! The other precaution you can take is to use software to monitor the SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) status of your drives. This technology can predict some failures. It it not, however, a replacement for backups. If you fail to perform backups, the consequences are your problem. |
TGoddard (7263) | ||
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