Hard Disk Dead :(

Strider590

You may find the control board (on the underside of the HDD) has died, if you got hold of exactly the same HDD, you could swap the control board over and retrieve your data.


People laugh when I tell them I build up my own external HDD's, yes I recently paid a total of £85 for a 500GB drive, when you can buy 1TB for less in the shops!!!
But! I picked the best enclosure (Antec MX1) and I picked the best drive for the job....

A 500GB Samsung Spinpoint F2 5400rpm eco green.... Basically it has liquid bearings (so its very quiet), the slow spin speed keeps it cool, and "eco green" roughly translates to using next to no power.

One case I think were you have to spend more to save more in the long run.

Laz123

I know this may sound silly but sometimes it works. Wrap the hd in clingfilm to make watertight and put in freezer for a few hours. Then it may work enough to extract data.

kippen_noedel

Laz123 wrote: »

I know this may sound silly but sometimes it works. Wrap the hd in clingfilm to make watertight and put in freezer for a few hours. Then it may work enough to extract data.

yes it often works but to avoid any moisture being inside before you do this, put it on top of a radiator for 2 or 3 minutes, then wrap it clingfilm.

Rich44_2

ABH wrote: »

You'll be glad to hear that Seagate have their own:
http://seagatedatarecovery.com/ well right up to the point you hear the price they're going to charge

Or there's: http://www.retrodata.co.uk/ whose considered quite cheap apparently.

You could also try purchasing a compatible drive, then depending upon how brave you're feeling, simply take the small green board off the bottom of the new disk, and attach it to the space you'll create when you take the one off your old disk. Then simply plug the drive back into your computer and see if it recognises it. If it does you'll have saved yourself a fortune

HTH

Noooooo don't do that if the drive was making mechnical noises it won't help and a lot of the newest drives that trick doesnt work on anyway

If it's bearing failure (and mech noise often is) then the freezer trick often yeilds results, in fact i've tried it with a drive before now and it's not worked so i've put the drive down and forgotten about it and 6 months later tried again and got a result

mark101

Rich44 wrote: »

Noooooo don't do that if the drive was making mechnical noises it won't help and a lot of the newest drives that trick doesnt work on anyway

If it's bearing failure (and mech noise often is) then the freezer trick often yeilds results, in fact i've tried it with a drive before now and it's not worked so i've put the drive down and forgotten about it and 6 months later tried again and got a result

I'm tempted but worried about causing more damage. The stupid thing is beeping! Shame you don't get a code read out e.g. 1 beep for x etc.

basmic

Freezer trick won't do any harm - slam it in for a good hour, so it chills just nicely. Then take it out and plug it in straight away, and grab what you can off it.

It's not guaranteed to work, but it has helped saved my bacon when getting data from a full-ish 250GB drive. :eek:

savemoney

I tried that before and didnt work

USB HD was working fine until clown of a electrician without permission or warning turned power off. Next time went to use USB HD wasnt working constantly clicking noise

basmic wrote: »

Freezer trick won't do any harm - slam it in for a good hour, so it chills just nicely. Then take it out and plug it in straight away, and grab what you can off it.

It's not guaranteed to work, but it has helped saved my bacon when getting data from a full-ish 250GB drive. :eek: