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pkw111

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That is the noise one of our hard drives started making the other day whenever we try to boot it up. It is making a new noise that I have never heard before. After making that noise a few times, the BIOS reports a 'disk error'. FECK.

I really want to rescue all the music and photo's we have organized on there. It's a Maxtor 160 GB drive. I bought two of the same model at the same time from Newegg like 4 years ago. I have been toying with the idea of physically swapping the platters from the broken drive to the other one.

It's risky for sure! I have no faith in the remaining 160GB drive, so I don't care about destroying it. If I succeed, I get bragging rights for a long time. If I fail, then no big deal as it was kind of obvious I would fail, right?

What are my chances of success?

Probably better if posted in the correct forum. 😉 - Moderator Rubycon


 
Would you pay $1,000 or more for the data on that drive? Cause you might have to. If it's that important, DON'T spin it up, and send it to a pro data recovery; any power-ons can wreck the platters. Or throw it away.
 
A clean room isn't your room cleaned! 😀 A clean room is a laboratory-type of place where people wear special suits, hats, gloves, there are very expensive filters for the air, people can't move fast, talk a lot, sneeze, fart and the air circulates in a special way. Can you make one? 😉

As for your small experiment, hell, no way you can succeed. But you can take one drive apart just of curiosity, to see how it looks inside 😛 You could recover the data at a special company, but it costs major $$$.
 
If it's making strange noises keep the drive powered off until it can be serviced by a pro. That is if you value its contents!

This is what happened to a Deskstar left running making a screeching noise:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhMsCG5uj_g

There is no recovering data from the platter in the clear section! :Q
 
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