Dead drive help!

[RaWk]

So my harddrive had been clicking and clacking quite a bit...definetely not good. So I hopped on over to Newegg and ordered a Deskstar...while the IBM is currently shipping my harddrive has decided to completely die on me. When I boot I get a whole bunch of clicking and clacking from the drive heads and BIOS won't recognize the drive. Very bad...

So, my question is for you all... without blowing very large sums of money (and even if I wanted to...how large of a sum are we talking here...?) is there any way to get my data off of my old harddrive? Can I put it into any special mode that locks the head into place or something...I dunno...I'm stretching here...but thought I'd ask.

Thanks!

 

[MacaroneePenguin]

I think the best thing to do is to run the bad hard drive as slave off your new hard drive and try to get the data that way...

 

[tbalon]

What kind of drive was it?

If it was an IBM series GXP75, you might try contacting IBM customer service because alot of these drives went bad and I think IBM was replacing them for free.

 

[MacaroneePenguin]

Yup I RMA'd m 75gxp just recently...

 

[RaWk]

It's a Western Digital 30GB. I think I can still RMA it through WD but I was actually gonna try running it as a slave off of my new master and seeing what I can do there.

 

[bozo1]

Just restore from your backup.

 

[daveshel]

If the drive will not spin up (is having rotational issues), the only way to get the data from it is through data recovery specialists: they are very expensive.

 

[nihil]

there was a post somewhere oh the forums about this issue. try searching for it cause it had a wealth of good info. but to just summarize the thread a guy had a dead drive and he put it in the freezer (yes i'm serious) for about 30 mins and was able to pull some of the data off it the drive. another method was using a rubber mallet to gently tap the drive. but don't try this stuff till you find out how exactly it was done. hope this helps.



Edit: found that thread here. it doesn't have as much info as i originally thought but i just thought i'd let you check it out for yourself.