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Half-Dead hard disk .... data recovery possible?

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Abhi

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My brother gave me his dead laptop hard disk today. It is a old 6 GB IBM drive and it finally gave in last week.

He had most of the stuff backed up, but he lost a couple of pictures of his kid in the crash.

It ll be a good christmas present for him if I can recover the photographs... 🙂

Current Situation:

I have the adapter to connect the laptop HDD to my desktop. I connected it to a windows XP machine with bootable hard disk as Primary Master. I connected the malfunctioning disk as Secondary master.

In setup the BIOS instantly recognizes the drives in the "IDE Auto Detect". However, the computer hangs on the BIOS screen for a couple of minutes before going to the Windows XP load screen. There Windows hangs on the load screen, the blue bar running endlessly.

So i pulled the power plug on the malfunctioning drive and windows rebooted fine. Then i risked re - connecting the power to the drive with windows already booted, and the disk was detected by windows and the message appeared "Found IBM xXXXX" Hard Disk. After this however, windows froze.

If the hdd was detected under windows, I could possibly run some data recovery software on it, but thats not happening....

So, any ideas?

p.s. For cliff notes see the bolded text 🙂
 
throw it in the freezer! 🙂

there's a thread from yesterday with a number of ways to revive a dead HD... see if it contains any possible solutions.
 
Already did a search on AT and read this thread.... Freezer is the last option 🙂

Btw ... I can feel it whirring up but then it repeatedly makes a sound ....and that sound is not a click.
 
The freezer trick worked perfectly...

I got the required data back successfully... 😀

Thanks to all who replied ...
 
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