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Hard Drive Help! Plz!

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viewton

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Hey guys,

My wife has a PC at her business, and they have a number of important files which of course weren't backed up. The old HD crashed, and
the PC is now up and running with a new HD. I thought I'd take a look at the old HD to see if I could retrieve the lost files.

This is the worst HD I've seen in awhile...when I boot it up, it makes an awful whining and clicking noise...I swear, I want to put earplugs in just to block out the sound 🙂

Anyway, I went into the CMOS and was able to get the PC to identify the HD, but when trying to boot up on my own primary drive, I get the error:

"Slave HDD Failure. Press F1 to Resume"

Is there anything at all I can try to get the HD working, or is it pretty much shot?

Thanks for any help!
 
Is it a IBM Deskstar 75GXP?
If so it's most likely dead. And in order to recover data you have to look into "data recovery services" which is extremely expensive. I always setup important company files on a RAID 0 array.

Assuming the drive still works.
If you don't need to be able to boot to it just boot with the new drive and connect the other drive as slave. And move your files.
 
Thx for the quick reply, its a WD Caviar 21600 from the Middle Ages...it's only a 1.5 gb drive...it's a small shop, but the files that I was trying to retrieve are important to them. Unfortunately, they're not the most computer "sensitive" people, so they didn't think about the files until it was too late.

I was trying to do as you suggested, as far as booting up with my good HD, and copying the files over, but that's where I got the "Slave HDD failure" error.

Those data recovery places are pretty expensive I bet, eh?
 
RAID 0 ?

Why dont you pull a drive out and see if the raid still holds. I think it should be Raid 5 or mirror which is 1.
 
RAID 0 ?

Why dont you pull a drive out and see if the raid still holds. I think it should be Raid 5 or mirror which is 1.
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Yea I mean RAID 1 heh sorry wasn't thinking.
 
ah, i see what you guys are saying...I don't have access to a RAID controller, unfortunately. That's a really good idea though, maybe I can call some friends to see if they know of someone with an array.
 
ah, i see what you guys are saying...I don't have access to a RAID controller, unfortunately. That's a really good idea though, maybe I can call some friends to see if they know of someone with an array.
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Well it's too late now, we're just saying that is how you SHOULD prevent this.

You pretty much have to look into data recovery services.
 
doh! alright, well, thx for the replies...they'll have to decide on the data recovery service I guess.

-thx again
 
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