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| Thread ID: 67411 | 2006-03-26 23:46:00 | My hard drive is clicking | tommyboy6996 (10069) | Press F1 |
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| 441059 | 2006-03-31 21:23:00 | Another way to recover data (if your feeling lazy and dont want to find your phillips scew driver) is to use a live linux cd and usb thumb drive, my preferance is knoppix. | beama (111) | ||
| 441060 | 2006-03-31 23:32:00 | The technique for putting the drive into a different computer can sometimes really make a difference . I've encountered a 20GB Western Digital drive in the past from a (700MHz Celeron) Compaq Deskpro which was completely refusing to boot up . Trying to install Windows off RIS wouldn't even work so it seemed the drive had left this world for a better place . However, just as a test I put the drive into another (800MHz Pentium 3) Deskpro and Windows installed fine . It takes about 20 secs to get past the BIOS screen for some reason but after that it runs perfectly . To make everything seem even more strange when I took the original 10GB drive from the Pentium 3 Deskpro and put it into the first one, it worked! So to put it in short, all is not lost (yet) :thumbs: . |
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| 441061 | 2006-03-31 23:55:00 | Others may frown over this advice, but perhaps try and give it a couple of semi-gentle taps (while turned off) and see if that gets it to run. If it does, backup your data pronto!! I've also heard some people suggest putting a failing drive into the freezer for a while, and then let it get back to room temperature. Apparently the expansion and contraction can help free a stuck component. Deffinately don't do any of these thing if your data is important and you need to use a proffessional data recovery service which can cost well over a thousand. |
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