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HDD repair

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  • 28-10-2008 3:43pm
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    Alkers
    Registered Users Posts: 6,822 ✭✭✭


    Have a damaged HDD that I want to try and recover some files off. I have most of it backed up except for DVDs I don't want to rip again and pictures from the summer. Drive was in a caddy and was knocked of a table when turned on. It's no longer recognised in Xp and makes a clicking noise when powered on. Is there anyone who'd be able to take a look at it or would repairing it be prohibitively expensive?


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    #2
    skinner75
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭skinner75


    Doesn't sound good tbh...

    Data recovery is expensive - at least a grand, which you pay even if they can't recover any data!

    I'd consider the drive dead, the data lost, and just move on


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    MunsterCycling
    Registered Users Posts: 4,864 ✭✭✭MunsterCycling


    Normally this type of repair is very expensive, if you are willing to risk it google the freezer trick for hdd


    MC


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    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    I agree with the two previous. Out sourcing repair/data recovery to the drive will be costly.
    The clicking you hear is the arms reaching across the cylinder disks as they try to read them with their heads.
    This is NOT a good sound to hear at any stage. Even if you were able to extract anything form it, you would (or should) never use it again.

    There is a number of well known home tricks for retrieving data from the drive. Do not use or spin-up the hard-drive till your ready to use the retrieval methods. The drive will only work for so long now before it won't respond at all eventually. What little use that is left in it, should be kept till your ready to go with rescue methods.

    Have a read here:
    http://www.suggestafix.com/lofiversion/index.php/t16198.html
    http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/06/22/help-my-hard-disk-crashed.aspx

    Good luck.


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