Hard Drive Crash.

[Bigblades]

My hard drive, is dead. I lament not only the hard drive, but the 150 gigabytes of movies, games, music, and of course, nefarious porn, I had stored upon that. My documents from high school, my photoshop collection of about 3500 images, my piano recital when I was 16... all are lost.

Time to RMA western digital....

On a side note, anybody know how to recover data from a drive when its crahsed? Only information I can give is that the drive doesn't spin when it is hooked up.

 

[Chronoshock]

Eh if it doesn't spin up sounds like a mechanical failure. You can always try the freezer trick (pop it in the freezer for a couple hours and see if it starts up).

 

[OulOat]

Freezer trick or the drop trick (try freezer trick first).

Oh yeah, MPAA/RIAA pwned j00!

 

[Zanix]

That freezer trick worked for me, but mine was making that ting ting ting ting noise. Well, worked long enough for windows to boot and ~15 seconds to mess.

If you had an identical drive, you could try swapping the pcb on it.

 

[onza]

what does the freezer do?

 

[jtusa]

Backup backup backup!!

 

[desteffy]

Check this out:

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"200 ways to revive a hard drive"

They seem to list about every trick i have heard of.

(and obviously way more)

 

[desteffy]

bet you'll always remember to backup for the rest of your life. I have never been in your place, but i've seen it happen to many friends. Good luck.

 

[Bigblades]

I think that the circuit on it got burned by a surge or something, because it happened when the power spiked and then computer turned off.... I don't think it was an actual disk failure.

I tried the freezer thing, but if the hard drive isn't spinning at all (I been feelin to see if it vibrates) then the freezer trick isn't really gonna do much good.

whats the PCB?
- I'm tempted to do that but then I can't RMA the drive...

 

[onza]

Originally posted by: Bigblades
I think that the circuit on it got burned by a surge or something, because it happened when the power spiked and then computer turned off.... I don't think it was an actual disk failure.

I tried the freezer thing, but if the hard drive isn't spinning at all (I been feelin to see if it vibrates) then the freezer trick isn't really gonna do much good.

whats the PCB?
- I'm tempted to do that but then I can't RMA the drive...

PCB - printed circuit board

 

[Zanix]

Originally posted by: Bigblades
I think that the circuit on it got burned by a surge or something, because it happened when the power spiked and then computer turned off.... I don't think it was an actual disk failure.

I tried the freezer thing, but if the hard drive isn't spinning at all (I been feelin to see if it vibrates) then the freezer trick isn't really gonna do much good.

whats the PCB?
- I'm tempted to do that but then I can't RMA the drive...

pcb... the part with the chips on it. There's probably four screws and some foam. If you pull it straight off (ie. back away from the rest), there's ~4 prongs that go into the solid metal part of the drive. Just have to find another one of those. Obviously comes from an identical drive.

yeah. and probably voids the business on it

 

[Bigblades]

Maybe western digital will be cool and send me a new circuit board for it. I think that would fix it.

I'm just worried that if I send it to them, I'll get a new drive and no data, and if I try to fix it, I lose the ability to send it to them by voiding the warrenty.

 

[Kipper]

Originally posted by: desteffy
Check this out:

Text

"200 ways to revive a hard drive"

They seem to list about every trick i have heard of.

(and obviously way more)

That link is ridiculous. Awesome read...thanks!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Wrong forum.

 

[MDE]

I had a 250GB Maxtor die on me Friday night (corrupt files and folders, now only shows up as 125GB). It's a PITA...

 

[BigFatCow]

I remember when my HD crashed and i lost all my files i was so pissed off. A few days later i bought 3x160 gig seagates and a raid 5 card, im about to buy a 4th HD.

 

[AkumaX]

same thing happened to me last year, on, you guessed it, a WD. also lost hw/docs and 4000 pix i took on a digicam

haha there's no way WD would send you a circuit board, that's pretty funny.

there's 2 things you can do though with WDC:

-- standard RMA - you send in your dead hdd, they send you back a new/recertified one.
-- advanced RMA - they send you a new/recertified hdd, you send back your dead one.

as with this lesson, i back up all my docs/imgs onto dvds. good luck!

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

I had a HD flaking out for a while.

Every now and then I would have to boot from my XP CD, and then abort the install after all the drivers and whatnot were loaded. The machine would then boot just fine, and of course all my data was there.

I had a second HD in there too, so I back up my data files and then installed a new harddrive, and moved them over.

 

[Chompman]

You lost your porn ...

Shall we all help you recover from the lose and send you some

 

[watek]

Get Seagate or Samsung next. They're improving!