my 20 gig wd hdd died tonite

[bUnMaNGo]

so I came across some job listings on monstertrak.com and decided to send out my resume/cover letter tonite... the thing is, my resume was on my wd hdd which was in my computer, and my cover letter templates were on this hdd that i had on my desk because I'm in the middle of reformatting/swapping hdds with my multiple computers. So I plug in the 80 gig that was sitting on my desk as a slave into my main rig, power up, then Win2k does its thing and boots. But the thing is after I get to the logon screen, it just reboots. I try different things, trying safe mode, last known good config, etc, all to no avail. Finally, I gave up and decided to take the slave drive back out. I dunno what I did, but after I took out my slave drive, my primary drive (the 20 gig wdd) decided to not power up again. I tried switching power/ide cables, all to no avail. I then tested the same power/ide cables with my other hdd and they worked fine. I tried plugging the wd drive into another box, and it still wouldn't power up :| so now I am left with a cover letter on a working hdd, and no resume to go along with it stoopid wd... i also had the entire past two quarter's worth of schoolwork on that computer (I just got it in January) and a bunch of mp3's I got from my roommate before we moved out. is there any way to get this data back?

 

[Nefrodite]

unless your hd magincally wakes up again, no you cannot. atleast not without some extreme measures. you can spend hundreds/thousands of dollars by sending it into data recovery companies.


hd's are dangerous for data, remember that. setup raid for important storage, two small drives for documents etc. or manually keep double copies on two separate discs, more troublesome

 

[datalink7]

That sucks. Sorry to hear it.

That is why I have a hard drive in my computer that only has stuff that is important to back up. Nothing else is put on it.

If I had a burner I would back up the super important stuff on cd's as well.

 

[chickendinner]

thats why i have make copies anything that i Might consider valuable.

 

[Freejack2]

There is one possibility, it's chancey at best but if you can borrow a hard drive of the same exact model with a similar production date you may be able to swap the boards and get your drive up and running long enough to get all your data off of it.
This of course assumes a bad board and not a bad motor or crashed heads.

 

[XFreebie]

i had a 6.4GB WD that died a few years ago, so i never bought WD again