most important hard drive died last night - help!

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i left my pc on all night last night to do some encoding but when i woke up it was crashed.. Tried to boot into the os but it wouldnt let me so i opened the case to see if something was disconnected and found my hard drive making the most unusual noise ... i can describe it so i uploaded a video to youtube for you guys


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTQBzbvdXeI
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Any chance this can be fixed? i have my os and a lot of important info on it and really need it back
(i know i should have backed it up but now it might be too late)

any help is appricated

thanks,
Rob

bonzodog2

I would try finding a circuit board from an identical drive (not just the model no, all the way down to firmware revision and very close to month of manufacture). Then if that don't work, its probably down to the expensive DR guys. How much is YOUR data worth? Not the OS, your data you can't do without.

yoyo

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i left my pc on all night last night to do some encoding but when i woke up it was crashed.. Tried to boot into the os but it wouldnt let me so i opened the case to see if something was disconnected and found my hard drive making the most unusual noise ... i can describe it so i uploaded a video to youtube for you guys


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTQBzbvdXeI
..

Any chance this can be fixed? i have my os and a lot of important info on it and really need it back
(i know i should have backed it up but now it might be too late)

any help is appricated

thanks,
Rob

Thats the click of death, so yep the hard disk is screwed. Do not keep powering it on more if the data is important, you'll likely need to get the data professionally recovered. You could try putting it in another PC with a working OS install and seeing can any part of it be accessed.
Some may reccomend putting the drive in a freezer in a freezer bag for a few hours, you can try it but I wouldn't personally reccomend it, you do chance screwing it up even more if condensation gets inside the drive

Nick

unkel

What he said ^^^

Disk is dying, get your data off asap while you can

There's no point sticking it in the freezer. That old trick might help if the drive has completely seized / is not recognised anymore by any tools / os. It worked once for me (out of maybe 6 or 7 attempts)

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well its not working in the os now getting nothing from it .. not even a RAW hard drive state