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Broken External hard drive

  • 23-11-2008 3:15pm
    #1
    Taco Corp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    I've done the most stupid thing and dropped my hard drive. Of course it doesn't work anymore. I would really like to be able to recover what is on it. When I connect it to my laptop it no longer is being picked up by explorer and make a strange sound like it can't spin anymore. Anyone know if this is possible to get it fixed anywhere in Dublin? It's a Western Digital if that helps.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Squeaksoutloud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Squeaksoutloud


    Can anyone help me also I have dropped my external hard drive also and it seems to be corrupted. When I try to copy files from the drive in windows explorer i get a message ''Cyclic Error Redundancy Check' similar to what happens with dodgy CD's/DVD's. Anyone know what can be done? I have tried Y Copy and have managed to salvage a few files but after a while my external hard drive seems to freeze.


  • #3
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,516 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Surley wrote: »
    Hi

    I've done the most stupid thing and dropped my hard drive. Of course it doesn't work anymore. I would really like to be able to recover what is on it. When I connect it to my laptop it no longer is being picked up by explorer and make a strange sound like it can't spin anymore. Anyone know if this is possible to get it fixed anywhere in Dublin? It's a Western Digital if that helps.

    Thanks

    not from dublin so cant give you any names but im sure its possible to recover but a word of warning. Disk recovery will cost you. Friend of mine had it done recently and it cost in the range of 300 or something.

    Is the information that valuable?


  • #4
    mick84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭mick84


    Hi,
    Before sending your harddisk to an external company try this its very simple to do and will save you loads if money.

    http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Damaged_Hard_Disk

    Hope this helps


  • #5
    Stoner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,952 ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    Computers Unlimited in Phibsboro Dublin 7, far side of the road from Eddie Rockets. Last time I heard it is was a €95 flat fee, they would check it out and get back to you with a full bill afterwords, you don't get the €95 back if you decide to just take the disk away with you again, but it came off the bill if you asked them to fix it.

    The strange sound may be a cracked or broken plate (the click of death I think it's called). Believe it or not , but some people claim to have cooled their HD , and they could get them to work for about 20 min before they heat up again.

    The idea being that the frozen plates expand and hide the cracks. I know someone who tired it and it did not work, but others on forums say it did. This is all based on the assumption that it is a cracked plate, and that could very well not be the case.


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