Hard Drive crashed...need help.
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^^+1. what is your opinion on external back up HD? I have 2, one to back up the other?
Jason, sorry to hear about your issue and hope you get it resolved. I too have been a victim of HD crashes!
Jason, sorry to hear about your issue and hope you get it resolved. I too have been a victim of HD crashes!
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Burn what you can to cd or dvd anything magnetic is a liability. As long as you keep the optical stuff in a jewel case and out of the hands of children you should be good to go for about 100+ years.
Ifyou have a safe deposit box that is the best place in the world to keep the cd. If not make two copies place em in an envelope and send to two differnet relatives.
Ifyou have a safe deposit box that is the best place in the world to keep the cd. If not make two copies place em in an envelope and send to two differnet relatives.
Jason let me tell you how to fix it. You take your computer make sure you get a towel, a knife, Pen and paper. Then once you've done that get your computer thow it out the window, then write a suicide letter, slit your wrist and make sure you leave the towl under yourself before you die so we dont have as big of a mess to clean up.
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Originally Posted by dabomb
make a time capsel, find a hidden place no one will ever look and burry it....then make a secret treasure map using code
LOL.
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Originally Posted by WILD121
Jason let me tell you how to fix it. You take your computer make sure you get a towel, a knife, Pen and paper. Then once you've done that get your computer thow it out the window, then write a suicide letter, slit your wrist and make sure you leave the towl under yourself before you die so we dont have as big of a mess to clean up.
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Agree that a platter swap to a similar drive is worth the shot since there is plenty of real data that can be salvaged. Clunking, clicking and grinding generally involve platter damage but anything other than getting raped by the recovery houses is worth a shot.
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Can anyone perform this platter swap for me? Hate to have my first crack at this be important. There is the exact HD on ebay (western digital 80 gig..model WD800) right now that ends in a few hours. It'll cost me about $30 bucks to get it (with shipping).
Are platter swaps dangerous (for the data) or difficult (for me)?
Please advise.
Thanks
Are platter swaps dangerous (for the data) or difficult (for me)?
Please advise.
Thanks
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Originally Posted by g8tor20
Can anyone perform this platter swap for me? Hate to have my first crack at this be important. There is the exact HD on ebay (western digital 80 gig..model WD800) right now that ends in a few hours. It'll cost me about $30 bucks to get it (with shipping).
Are platter swaps dangerous (for the data) or difficult (for me)?
Please advise.
Thanks
Are platter swaps dangerous (for the data) or difficult (for me)?
Please advise.
Thanks
Considering the sounds symptoms you reported I am rather confident the plater could already be damage. If you send it to a data recovery shop that specializes in reading the raw data from the drive and reassembling the file allocatio table then sending it to them is the best bet but the most costly.
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Thanks for offering.
I got a flat fee price from rescuemydata.com of $600 bucks. It will be deducted under my dad's business....and he is in a high tax bracket. So...it would really only cost about $400 bucks or so. I guess I just have to bite the bullet and see what they can do. uggggggh
I got a flat fee price from rescuemydata.com of $600 bucks. It will be deducted under my dad's business....and he is in a high tax bracket. So...it would really only cost about $400 bucks or so. I guess I just have to bite the bullet and see what they can do. uggggggh
Originally Posted by sysadlight
Jason,
I'm in IT and deal with stuff like this all the time. I see several bad HDD's a year and if any of them get to the point of clicking. grinding, making any sort of noise at all, they are useless.
I have sent 4 drives to a company called DriveSavers, which seemed highly regarded, and each drive has a $200 fee attached before they will look a it. THey claim to be able to recover stuff, but I have never been able to recover any data off this type of failure. I think they are good with catastrophic type failures, like running a laptop over with car, spills that short out a system, things like that. When it comes to a worn out drive that grinds and clicks and just slowly dies, it has done enough damage to itself that it just cant be salvaged.
If it were me, I wouldnt bother sending it in unless you dont have to pay up front. I think some may ask you to pay up front before they look at it, and some will ask you to pay if you want your drive back after they tell you they either got stuff off it, or couldnt get anything off it.
Hopefully you have a backup somewhere of stuff...that would suckif not.
just my .02 but I've never had any luck with those type of recoveries....
Good Luck!!
Mike
I'm in IT and deal with stuff like this all the time. I see several bad HDD's a year and if any of them get to the point of clicking. grinding, making any sort of noise at all, they are useless.
I have sent 4 drives to a company called DriveSavers, which seemed highly regarded, and each drive has a $200 fee attached before they will look a it. THey claim to be able to recover stuff, but I have never been able to recover any data off this type of failure. I think they are good with catastrophic type failures, like running a laptop over with car, spills that short out a system, things like that. When it comes to a worn out drive that grinds and clicks and just slowly dies, it has done enough damage to itself that it just cant be salvaged.
If it were me, I wouldnt bother sending it in unless you dont have to pay up front. I think some may ask you to pay up front before they look at it, and some will ask you to pay if you want your drive back after they tell you they either got stuff off it, or couldnt get anything off it.
Hopefully you have a backup somewhere of stuff...that would suckif not.
just my .02 but I've never had any luck with those type of recoveries....
Good Luck!!
Mike
