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help with a harddrive

Z

Zeppo

Junior Member
I think my drive died today, but would like an opinion on how bad it might be.

I can hear it spin up, and I can feel the platters turning.
BIOS recognizes it.
Windows does not see it.
booting to the repair consol from my XP cd will not see it.

I tried the freezing trick. Left it in the freezer for 4 hours. No luck.

Should I just chunk it?
It was a 250GB hd, and it held all my important stuff like movies, pictures, games, music, just everything.
I was even about to go buy another one and mirror them for safety.
Dammit.

Thanks.
 
Do you have norton goback installed? If so you should disable it and see if it works properly after that.
 
Nope. Antivirus yes, but not GoBack.

I downloaded a demo version of Stellar Phoenix and it sees it.
It says the partition table is corrupted when I try to scan for partition information.
It then wants to go through reading ever sector and looking for logical drives.
It's doing that now, and might take a few hours, so I am just going to let it run.
 
Well, I guess I lucked out because the freezer trick didn't seem to hurt it.
It has been 36 hours now, and that phoenix Software is still scanning the drive.
It is almost done, and I am hoping that it will tell me that it can recover everything.
I know I'll have to buy it to get it to do that, though.
It's $99, and I see that some of those links are cheaper.

Which of those would you recommend?

Thanks!
 
Well, I think I'm screwed.
Phoenix Software finished it's two day scan and said it couldn't find any logical drive.
I tried Spinrite, and it said it couldn't do anything.
I am currently running R-Studio, and it is scrolling through all the sectors saying Read Failed after 10 attempts. Data Error. cyclic redundancy check.

I think I'm boned.
Maybe the drive is still good, just for some freaky reason it corrupted everything on it.

Is the drive trustworthy to format and use again, or should I return it for warranty replacement?

 
My favorite recovery program is Runtime's GetDataBack.
I would suggest giving this program a chance before you give up.

The only way to see if your drive is still useful would be to repartition, reformat, and store some data on there. I would not trust it.

For the warranty replacement, you will need to provide an error code from the hard drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility. This diagnostic utility can be found on their support page. Download the utility, test your drive, and see if any errors result. Then look up the error code on the manufacturer's webpage and see from there what to do next.
 
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