Thread: Any help for a Dead Drive ?

Originally Posted by newprouser

Yippey.................. MY HDD"S BACK AGAIN... thx a lot to those guys who came with the solution....

Back to work.... Backup backup backup.... unk:

S**** $EAhAte

good for you buddy!

Originally Posted by newprouser

Yippey.................. MY HDD"S BACK AGAIN... thx a lot to those guys who came with the solution....

Back to work.... Backup backup backup.... unk:

S**** $EAhAte

Nice to hear that. Such a relief it will be.

How did you manage ?

Thanks guys... but disaster struck today morning, my primary HDD died with 4 clicking sounds (aka click of death) , and it doesn't have warranty, but hell it doesn't have much of my data... 149.5 GB (space) gone....

Really i'm beginning to wonder if my data is jinxed....

Originally Posted by meetdilip

Nice to hear that. Such a relief it will be.

How did you manage ?

I've already posted the links to soln in post #46

Originally Posted by newprouser

Thanks guys... but disaster struck today morning, my primary HDD died with 4 clicking sounds (aka click of death) , and it doesn't have warranty, but hell it doesn't have much of my data... 149.5 GB (space) gone....

Really i'm beginning to wonder if my data is jinxed....



I've already posted the links to soln in post #46

again another HDD said ta ta bye bye ?

Originally Posted by kirankumargb

again another HDD said ta ta bye bye ?

What the devil gave, he took back

I repaired the first HDD yesterday night, and today morning as soon as I started comp, I got the click of death :52:

is it atleast detecting bios or not even that ?

No the drive is not detected at all...

ok you have the final chance, try the method i told you last time, put it in a freezer and recover the data as soon as possible. That freezer method is specially for the dead HDD like this one

Yes , gonna try that...

I've recovered all data after freezing HDD. (after carefully wrapping in static resistant cover & placed in an air tight box)... Perhaps I really 'froze' instead of jus cooling it. It closely resembled ice and there was a lot of condensation on it.

So i jus let it warm untill room temperature.. then wiped off the water. I placed it over the other harddisk and it got heated up for about 2 hours.

Then booted normally to run OS n copy data.

However I doubt that it will last anymore, it already having vibrations.... The funniest thing in all this is that the device SMART info shows 100% Heath, Fitness etc.:angry:

Thanks to KK and all others for all the help,advise and encouragement .... :thumbup: :clap:

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