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HDD failure help

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saimike

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i'm having some problems with a 2yr old WD800. my pci ata133 controller did not recognise it, although the bios was able to auto-detect its presence (abit bf6) in the bios setup screen when i have it on my mobo ide1 controller. the drive spins (i think) and makes a slow clicking sound rather than the usual rapid fire series of clicks when the system is booting up. i was told to try "ontrack data recovery" as a last ditch effort.

any other ideas?
 
Go the WD site and d/l the free diagnostic proggies to confirm it's failing.

I think it's WD that has probs to if u leave the jumper on when its master w/o a slave. Don't how you've got it setup other master on IDE I
 
Loud Clicks mean death is coming very soon if it hasn't already come for your drive. Heres a little trick you might try. If you want to try and save the data, take the drive and wrap it up real good and put it in the freezer for a couple of hours. Have your new drive ready to clone, and then take the frozen clicky drive out of the freezer and try and clone it real quick. I have on a number of occassions used this trick and it worked great!:light:
 
aside from stockjock's trick (which i'll try later tonight), what r my other data recovery options? do u guys think the data is still intact? i'm think regular computer shops in my neighborhood prob wouldnt be able to do this since they'll be using the same off-the-shelf programs that we have access to, and which would be useless since the ide controller isnt even picking it up. any ideas?
 
Originally posted by: stockjock
Loud Clicks mean death is coming very soon if it hasn't already come for your drive. Heres a little trick you might try. If you want to try and save the data, take the drive and wrap it up real good and put it in the freezer for a couple of hours. Have your new drive ready to clone, and then take the frozen clicky drive out of the freezer and try and clone it real quick. I have on a number of occassions used this trick and it worked great!:light:
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i tried this but it didnt work. the stone cold drive wasnt clicking but the mobo isnt finding it either. 🙁 now what ...
 
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