The words I just adore to see when I startup my computer in the morning....

[SunnyD]

Primary Slave hard disk failure.

Looks like it's time to go shopping.

 

[Kipper]

ATHD calls.

 

[Beattie]

Why bother? It will still work and you can save money if you just use the main drive only.

 

[PingSpike]

Pfft...thats nothing compared to primary master hard disk fail. At least the thing still fvcking boots.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Pfft...thats nothing compared to primary master hard disk fail. At least the thing still fvcking boots.

Except all of my digital stills are on that drive from the last year. I haven't gotten the opportunity to put them on a DVD yet.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Pfft...thats nothing compared to primary master hard disk fail. At least the thing still fvcking boots.

Except all of my digital stills are on that drive from the last year. I haven't gotten the opportunity to put them on a DVD yet.

Can you still neff? You can? Then you'll live.

Try disk in a different PC, try the freezer trick.

 

[waggy]

freeze it and then copy it.

it worked for me last time i had a HDD failure. saved a gig of por...err pictures of family!

 

[Ogg]

You seem to have bad luck

 

[ddjkdg]

Freeze it, stat.

 

[Platypus]

Depends on how it failed. Can you give any more information on it?

Does it spin up and click, or just not work at all? There is still a chance of saving the drive but it depends on what happened to it.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

just curious, how long are you supposed to leave the HDD in the freezer for the freezer trick to work?

 

[simms]

I've had that happen about 7 times now. I just restart, wait a few minutes, then it hiccups and goes back to normal.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: simms
I've had that happen about 7 times now. I just restart, wait a few minutes, then it hiccups and goes back to normal.

Yeah, just because this happened once, doesn't mean the drive is totally dead. Often drives will not detect every time when they're on the way out. I'd try rebooting and see if it gets it. If it doesn't copy all your sh|t to the other drive right away.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: waggy
freeze it and then copy it.

it worked for me last time i had a HDD failure. saved a gig of por...err pictures of family!

Agreed. I had a laptop drive that died during my freshman year of college (2 yrs ago), so I had virtually no tools on hand to save me...what did I do? I had a leatherman scredriver + dorm fridge + ziplock bag + convenient USB 2.0 harddrive. I was able to save docs, po...pictures..., and a few mp3's. I actually did the freezer trick about four times, each time getting a decreasing amount of life from the drive, but I got about an hourof life total out of it.

 

[SunnyD]

Well, I've already recovered the data off the drive. It has been doing this for the past year or so - Failure to spin up on power on, not detected by the BIOS.

However I did go to delete the partitions from the drive and was greeted promptly with a "Generic Windows Service Host Failure" error message, after which I couldn't even shut down the machine normally (ATX Power button time). After restarting, the BIOS wouldn't recognize the keyboard, which I removed all power for a few seconds, and here I am.

This is getting to be bad.

 

[vi edit]

Get Data Back

This little program has been a godsend.

 

[Czar]

when this sortof thing happens, think UPGRADE TIME!

 

[SunnyD]

Hey cool, I have a bad driver! I can get my computer to crash reliably thanks to my USB xD card reader! YAY!