Posted: 6/25/2006 4:53:42 PM EDT
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I went to help a friend with her computer the other day, her harddrive died, it was "clicking" and wouldn't boot. I told her her hardrive was toast and asked if she made backups. She made backups of quicken religiously, so bad new is, your drive is toast, good news is you have all the backups on the second harddrive we put in almost a year ago. Pull out the old Samsung SATA drive, install new hard drive and winXP and guess what? All her backups were made to the now dead main drive, not the backup!  SOOOOOOOOO............... She really needs her backup quicken data and would like her photos, what drive recovery service is recomended? 40 gig drive, how much money we looking at? |
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Trick I've used a few times... seal the hd in a ziplock bag, pushing as much air out as possible. Wrap the drive in a papertowel too.. put it in the freezer for about an hour or two. Take out, hook up right away and see if it works. Someone told me about this a long time ago, I thought no way. One of my guys tried it and it worked for him. He was able to use the drive for about 20 mins before it went out again. Not sure why doing this helps it.. but it has worked in the past a few times. The clicking is almost always going to be a dead drive though. It is the read/access arm that is banging back and forth inside the housing. -d |
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The freezer trick plus installing it upside down have worked in the past for me. I have one drive that before I stopped using it every month or so I'd have to mount it upside down from the position it had been running in and then leave it that way until the next time the controller card failed to recognize it. |
oddly enough a couple drives that do not spin up. we have lighty hit them with a hammer and occasionally they will spin up 
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