I just dropped her into the freezer and crossed my fingers

[Lithium381]

Well, i've tried three computers, nobody can see her even in the bios, she just sits there and clicks, so last ditch effort is to give her some time to cool off and think about what shes done(such a hothead she is! 7200).....anyways, wish me luck and i'll give a report in about 4 hours!

inside a anti-static bag inside a ziplock

 

[eXx08]

Good Luck.

 

[n7]

I still have a 60 GB IBM Deskstar that's running.

It's about 4 yrs. old now, & hasn't died yet.

Good luck with yours!

 

[quackerww]

You refer to you hard drives as her?
Not makeing fun just think its funny.

I'm not fixing my mistakes because they make me seem smart...

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: quackerww
You refer to you hard drives as her?
Not makeing fun just think its funny.

Your batteries are low dude.

Replace them.

 

[Mday]

just hope you didnt fill the bag with water.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Good luck! I've tried this before with a similar messed up deathstar and it did not work

 

[CalamitySymphony]

Deathstars cause death to others... they don't actually die themselves unless blown up by Jedi

I think the term for Hitachi's Deskstars should be re coined..

 

[JLGatsby]

Can't you just take out the disks and put them in a different HD?

 

[eLiu]

fridge trick worked for my 160GB maxtor...got the useful stuff off before it crapped out for good

 

[modedepe]

Isn't the freezer trick for drives that won't spin up? In which case I don't think it would help in this situation...

 

[stevty2889]

Freezer trick worked with my WD 80gb hard drive as well. I even put a frozen meatloaf on top to help keep it cool longer, and recovered all 60gb of data from it..

 

[Jiggz]

Goodluck. Hopefully, it will work long enough for you to pull your data out.

 

[RiDE]

Hey maybe he fell asleep and left the drive in the freezer.

 

[alimoalem]

....it's been 4.5 hours

 

[Elcs]

Originally posted by: alimoalem
....it's been 4.5 hours

The cooler the better I say

 

[bigboxes]

I had FIVE deskstars go bad. Tried the freezer trick with every one of them with the same results... 100% loss of data. I'm not bitter these days, but they really did have a rotten batch. It's too bad. I really liked 'em. Liked.

 

[Lithium381]

Well, i tried it to no avail, it just sits there making the same dry clicks it did before and nothing....:-( As for the delay of response, i just had to F****ing reaload my entire windows....i dunno wtf happend the other HD got corrupted or somethin' oh well i've been wanting to do this for a while and start from scratch with all this junk i've DL'd....and yes, this is the first thing i did when i got a connection to the internet!

 

[Hacp]

Should have had a backup solution

 

[tweekah]

I tried the freezer trick on a deathstar about 2 weeks ago for a buddy. No luck either. POS hard drives! It was 120GB (Hitachi name IBM technology) for the record.

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: n7
I still have a 60 GB IBM Deathstar that's running.

It's about 4 yrs. old now, & hasn't died yet.

Good luck with yours!

Good luck!

I have one in the family machine and that is failing. Makes a really loud whinging sound and won't transfer things to it...just glad it isn't in my machine! I've also had 4 friends IBM Deskstars die also.

Koing

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
Freezer trick worked with my WD 80gb hard drive as well. I even put a frozen meatloaf on top to help keep it cool longer, and recovered all 60gb of data from it..

:thumbsup:

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, Continuously clicking is a sign that the Drive can not read anything. It's recalibrating the head a retrying over and over. It probably does not spin up. Listen for the spinup or fell the drive for centrifical effect. The freezer trick is for that type of problem. Fixes it temporarily so you can get your files off of it. Do it quickly. May have to freeze again. Luck, Jim