My Hard Drive sounds like someone is taking a hammer to it. Think I can salvage anything?

[Shudder]

Before you say it's probably a cable or something, nope.. tried that already and it still makes noise when it's sitting there by itself with the power on.

I'm not too worried about programs, I just need things like savegames and email and such and was wondering if anyone has managed to get it working again by hitting it, or whatever, to get the data back for a short period of time.

A replacement's on the way so I don't care too much about this one, but if I can have access for a few minutes I'd be happy 🙂 thanks

 

[DAM]

to my knowledge there is no way to bring back a hd after it has died, however if you have some stuff that you really need, you can take it to a info recovery service but that runs around 500 dollars and up. so if you cant access it now, i really doubt you can access it by "hitting" it.




dam()

 

[mastertech01]

I can tell you if it is a Quantum you are likely out of luck..

 

[Shudder]

Nope. WD. I remember it doing this before, but I thought it was just the cable since a day later after I changed it it worked fine. Blasted. At least I'm getting a replacement, which saves me from a $100 worry of getting a new one, but there's a few recent things I'd like back. Oh well, life goes on.

 

[randypj]

I once was able to get a trashed hard drive spinning just enough to get info I needed off it. I put on a 36" IDE cable, and held it in my hand. If I held it at just the right angle it would spin up. In fact, I held and a buddy got the stuff off. Seriously.

My brother WD-40'd a couple old whatever kinda drives in a Packard Bell. He'd do it whenever they quit workin'. No problems. I dunno, they were RLLL or somethin'. Whoppin' 32MB per drive.
--Randy