Thank you all very much.

[Mongoo]

For those who don't know, My hardrive failed and was emiting a reacurring beeping noise. It was quite musical.

Anyways, after getting several questions answered here about what to do, I tryed the freezer trick yesterday. Put it in for 2 hours, inside 2 freezer bags and an anti shock bag. Sucked as much air as I could out of the bags and put it in. I also had my PC already taken apart for quick instalation.


So I put it in and start up the computer. I hear the that musical beep start up but halfway through the first wav of beeps it makes a hard click noise. Then while still in boot up, it made a couple of more click noises. Once windows was up, I was disapointed to find both dives on that IDE chain missing from my computer. (bad drive was set to master).

It then occures to me though, that I should try and reboot. I just figured maybe the drive just had to get unstuck and spin clean at the boot. So I reboot and sure enough it worked. I began immediately backing up my hard drive to a new one I just bought. And I was able to back up most of all of it. About 50-55 GB.

Really, I should have been able to transfer all of it, but there were some files that were dv videos captured in Pinnacle studio 8. These didn't even show a file size.

So in the end I've recoverd everything I wanted to, and the drive even works still. I just don't plan on using it anymore. And I've learned my lesson. I went out and bought a dvd burner and backed up my recovered data right away.

For those who don't know, the Freezer does bring dead drives back to life.

Thanks to all who were willing to figure this problem out.

Mongoo

 

[BlueWeasel]

Yep, I woke up one night to hear one of my WD drives making the clicks of death. I turned the system off and went back to sleep thinking I had lost everything on the drive.

The next morning, I went out and purchased a new drive. As a long shot I tried the freezer trick and amazingly it worked for me. The drive ran JUST long enough for me to backup the data to another drive.

Original Post Here - 3/15/2003

 

[LED]

Back in the 90's when I 1st heard of it, I thought it was a joke but have done it 3 times all with success but since I've learned to keep current backups and haven't had to use it in this Century

Another obscure thing that a few us did was throw the Square{CPU} in the freezer so that we could get Maximum OCing for about 1 Minute

Congrats on the Success but I think you know what needs to be done from here on out {Backup your stuffs}