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[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: HajikuFlip
Whats the reasoning with the freezing idea?

see here

" The idea is that the cold causes components in the HD to contract thereby allowing the platter to spin freely without getting "stuck" and seizing the HD. When I put the now quite cold HD into the iMac, it spun up! long enough for me to get his data moved to his new iMac. Yay! "

 

[Abhi]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Getdataback is WORKING!!!

YEAH!!!

told you so

 

[EvanGeliSt]

Originally posted by: jumpr
Freeze it in your freezer, take it out, reconnect it, and just try to get the data off it from the command line. Don't fool around with Windows.

 

[Brutuskend]

Yeah SWEEET, it seems to recover everything!

And I went to office max today and bought a Maxtor Ultra 250 gig with 8 meg cache for $159.

Now all I have to do is install it tomorrow and I won't run out of storage space for quite some time!

Thanks everyone for your help and suggestions!

 

[Snuffaluffaguss]

now would be a good time to think about backing that data up.....

 

[Dragnov]

My 120 GB hard drive died on me. IN LESS THAN A YEAR! Needless to say, I lost A LOT. And no I couldn't recover anything... evil click of death. There were NO warning signs. The freezer trick couldn't save it.

The killer point was I was backing up stuff onto DVD right then! It was burning and all of a sudden it freezes! Restart... *click* *click *click*

I really do believe I'm an unlucky person.

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: Dragnov
My 120 GB hard drive died on me. IN LESS THAN A YEAR! Needless to say, I lost A LOT. And no I couldn't recover anything... evil click of death. There were NO warning signs. The freezer trick couldn't save it.

The killer point was I was backing up stuff onto DVD right then! It was burning and all of a sudden it freezes! Restart... *click* *click *click*

I really do believe I'm an unlucky person.

Bummer

 

[johnjbruin]

Wow... just last weekend I backed up all my crap to 35cd's ( yeah.. i need a dvd burner.. thats another story). Not to be harsh but boy do I feel glad I did it. Part of my bi-yearly major back-up plan.

I have been in the situation where you are right now and trust me it sucked when I lost all my music collection AND important documents.

You should start backing stuff up.

 

[Trente]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Getdataback is WORKING!!!

YEAH!!!

Indeed; worked great with my friend's drive as well.

 

[JoeKing]

damn you people, now I'm paranoid (though I'm fairly confindent in my 120gig seagate) I just backed up my college work on cd.... its funny how four years can fit onto a single cd, 680mb worth of useless data.

 

[Mucho]

After a long dry spell you finally post something funny

 

[neonerd]

how do u kno if it indeed siezed up? just to be sure...

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

hmm, makes me think I need to backup my stuff now....

 

[Aharami]

wow. good with gettin all that data man. youve convinced me to back up my mp3s now

 

[kyparrish]

it's for this very reason i've got an older 40gig drive backing up my mp3's from my main HD

glad to see you got your data back!

 

[amdskip]

What kind of drive was it?

 

[KarenMarie]

Same thing happened to me.

In the end, I got another hard drive, set it to master and used the 'troubled' one as slave,.....copied all the info then reformatted the 'toubled' one and transfered the info back.

I did not have the time or patience to mess around too much looking for other solutions, so that is what I chose to do.

 

[wyvrn]

Buy another hard drive and make sure you back up to it on a periodic basis. Next time your hdd crashes it might not be recoverable.

 

[warcrow]

Originally posted by: jumpr
Freeze it in your freezer, take it out, reconnect it, and just try to get the data off it from the command line. Don't fool around with Windows.

Actually does work in some cases...

 

[randomlinh]

this is why I want to get a raid 5 server goin..... heh. 4.5GB dvd's just aren't cuttin' it these days... and by the time we have bluray or whatever else... it'll be too small for our TB HD's....

 

[Pliablemoose]

I have 2 120's in a RAID 1 after the last crash... Haven't had a failure yet, will prob get virused this time