OMG - How screwed are you when your HDD goes click click?!?!?

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Eli

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
It's working!!!

How do I see the second partition... :confused:
If there are two partitions and you can't see one, I'd say its not working very well. :p

 

GasX

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actually i froze the good drive... :eek:

freezing the bad one now...
rolleye.gif


fortunately, most of the key files were on the good one...
 

JoeKing

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dude, if the good HDdrive holding all of your important data is not clicking I'd venture to say nothing is wrong with the quite HD and you can even install a small OS on that drive and be fine. Either way once in an OS burn your stuff and you're set.
 

Eli

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
actually i froze the good drive... :eek:

freezing the bad one now...
rolleye.gif


fortunately, most of the key files were on the good one...
LOL.....

 

Hayabusa Rider

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Good luck man!

I have a 2 drives configured in a RAID setup. Meebe you want to try that next time. I only did it after what happened to you. I lost everything though. Didn't know the freezer trick (this was back in the days of huge 240 meg drives).

Keep us posted.
 

KingNothing

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On those Saturdays,
when kids go out and play,
yo I was VP in my room I let the stereo blaze,
wasn't faded,
not jaded,
just a kid with a pad and pen and a big imagination.
All this,
I seek,
I find I push the envelope to the line,
make it,
break it,
take it,
until I'm overrated.

Click, Click Boom.
I'm coming down on the stereo,
hear me on the radio,
click, click boom.
I'm coming down with the new style and you know it's buck wild.
Click, Click Boom
I'm on the radio station touring round the nation,
leaving the scene in devastation.
 

CFster

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I had a drive that did that. I took it out and whacked it against the table and reinstalled it. All was good - well, long enough to get my data off it anyway.


 

GasX

Lifer
Feb 8, 2001
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Originally posted by: rbloedow
I dont' feel sorry for you - you didn't back up ,so it's your loss ;)
bite me. It's my fiance's data and I was the one up until 7am recovering it...

 

isaacmacdonald

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screwed. It sucks. sometimes (I'm sure someone mentioned this above) you can freeze a hd and rescue a bit of data before it gets to room temp.
 

Keego

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Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Mwilding
It crashed and the OS HDD is clicking every second or so. I assume the drive is dead, but is ALL data lost or is there any way to retrieve a few key files?

It is quite possible that my fiance just lost her entire business plan she has been working on for two months... :Q:|:Q:|

Umm, I lost 114GB on a dead 120GB..If anyone should be crying it is me...


I lost 4-6+ yrs of duments..e.ven my resume.

I hope your new resume doesn't mention skills in data backup :D
 

GasX

Lifer
Feb 8, 2001
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Originally posted by: isaacmacdonald
screwed. It sucks. sometimes (I'm sure someone mentioned this above) you can freeze a hd and rescue a bit of data before it gets to room temp.
Skoorb effect?
 

Goosemaster

Lifer
Apr 10, 2001
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Originally posted by: Keego
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Mwilding
It crashed and the OS HDD is clicking every second or so. I assume the drive is dead, but is ALL data lost or is there any way to retrieve a few key files?

It is quite possible that my fiance just lost her entire business plan she has been working on for two months... :Q:|:Q:|

Umm, I lost 114GB on a dead 120GB..If anyone should be crying it is me...


I lost 4-6+ yrs of duments..e.ven my resume.

I hope your new resume doesn't mention skills in data backup :D

:D
 

Kanalua

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Jun 14, 2001
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Originally posted by: agnitrate
Try hooking it up as a slave on another system and give it a while before you actually power it up. It's happened to me and I've got it working long enough to pull data off of it. Unless we're talking like no power on whatsoever and just strictly clicking, there's a possible chance.

-silver

I've done this and saved my entire mp3 collection and mounds of videos...RMA's the old drive (MAxtor advanced RMA, so you keeop the old drive for a while)... Was able to save all the data...

Story here.
 

Viperoni

Lifer
Jan 4, 2000
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Has anybody else had their WD 80gig SE make a "clunk clunk" out of nowhere?
Mine's done that about 3 tiems since I've owned it (since last September), but there were no ill effects at all: I just heard the clunks, there was no momentary freeze in windows, nothing at all.
Hasn't made that soudn in at least a month.
I've run full WD-diagnostics, no problems reported by it OR by SMART monitoring.
Wierd :)
 

Acanthus

Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
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ostif.org
Originally posted by: KingNothing
On those Saturdays,
when kids go out and play,
yo I was VP in my room I let the stereo blaze,
wasn't faded,
not jaded,
just a kid with a pad and pen and a big imagination.
All this,
I seek,
I find I push the envelope to the line,
make it,
break it,
take it,
until I'm overrated.

Click, Click Boom.
I'm coming down on the stereo,
hear me on the radio,
click, click boom.
I'm coming down with the new style and you know it's buck wild.
Click, Click Boom
I'm on the radio station touring round the nation,
leaving the scene in devastation.

nice! haha.