"click of death" any fixes?

[briin79]

froze it for 2 hours, and it didnt click but made a wizzing noise after i reinstalled it. I know its spinning. what are some fixes i can try to retrieve the data. I have a new one from WD coming to replace it but i need the info off this one, and i do not want to pay hundreds of bucks for something i can do myself. Hey thats what the internet is for.

 

[ForumMaster]

you could try software based recovery tools. try this. i've heard good things about them. moral of the lesson: backup your stuff!

 

[MadAmos]

If it is clicking most likley the more you attempt to read it the more damage you can do to the data. If you cannot see the drive in bios and if you have data you can't afford to lose STOP and get profesional help. If there is contact with the platters every time you run the drive you are destroying data! Your best bet is a data recovery service like this he was able to save all my info from a very dead laptop drive and although expensive, it was way less than the bigger name services. It all depends on how important the information is to you so only you can decide what it is "worth"
If it shows in the bios you can try some of data recovery software just use google it is your friend or read through the previous post in thes forums for other Ideas.

Good luck with wichever you try

 

[SuperNaruto]

freezing trick is mostly for maxtor with overheating chips.. doesn't really work on other brand..

 

[briin79]

BUMP NEED ANSWERS HELP

 

[SparkyJJO]

Few questions:

1. Does it show up in the bios?
If yes,
2. Does it show up in windows?
If yes,
3. Do you have any other hard drive or another computer you can put your drive in?
If yes,
>>>> Get the data off that drive onto the other drive ASAP. Preferable to not try and boot from the dying drive, use it as a secondary drive and have another good working drive as the main drive with windows on it.

 

[boomerang]

Originally posted by: SuperNaruto
freezing trick is mostly for maxtor with overheating chips.. doesn't really work on other brand..

Not necessarily so. I just did it last week on an IBM. It made a whizzing sort of noise also.

 

[AMCRambler]

If it's formatted FAT32, boot into DOS and try and read it. I've got a disk that went pork that Windows will not read at all. I can see it in DOS though and all the files on it. This would require that the bios still recognizes the drive. It sounds like it does if it's spinning up.

 

[briin79]

what steps do i need to take to see if it shows in bios? i pressed f8, went to ide controllers and nothing was next to it not even the primary drive. i forze it for 24hours and it did the whizzing noise then it said disk read error press ctrl+alt+del to restart. which i do then it boots the slave drive will click and boot from primary. i would like to attempt to go into dos to get these. any pointers on how to do so?

 

[crimson117]

If repairing your own hard drive is a hobby project, by all means keep playing with it.

But if your data is truly important to you, STOP MESSING WITH THE DRIVE. Like MadAmos said every single time you click the drive it is damaging the platter and making it less likely that you'll get files off of it.

From your descriptions it sounds like it's way too far gone for some shareware utility to be able to recover it. Your drive has a hardware problem. The solution will not be software.

 

[briin79]

the files are 30000 songs. and about 3000 pics and videos of all the places i been to in the past year (vegas,mexico,spain,morrocco,paris,los angelas,lake havasu) i had a good year and would hate to only keep the myspace pics i posted on the internet.

 

[Old Hippie]

the files are 30000 songs. and about 3000 pics and videos of all the places i been to in the past year (vegas,mexico,spain,morrocco,paris,los angelas,lake havasu)

It sounds like a GREAT year. I hope you saved a little money for emergencies. Go here if ya really want to save your info.