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I have just fried my HD by static appearently , does any of you guys know whether there's any way to retrive my information on the drive? Any program, technique i can use to do it?
So upset now, I've just lost all the data i've stored on there since 1999.
When i boot the pc up, it basically stops at "Detecting IDE Drives". As soon as i unplug it, it pass that stage fine. Tried on another comp, same thing :s
I only moved my comp from my room to living room....and my HD is now screwed
Moving the comp from one room to another room should not do in the hard drive, are all the conections still tight.
Check the plugs, one may have come loose in the move
YARDofSTUF wrote:does the drive spin up? u can try get back right, i think thats the name, works very well.
ya mean GetDataBack? yeah, that does work really well.
if there's en electronic or mechanical problem with the drive (making undetectable or unable to read at all), he may be hosed.
only thing i can think of touches on what The Dude mentioned...... i would look around eBay (or similar) for the same drive. try a little surgery, if the info is that important.
Another option is the freezer trick. Sounds like an electrical problem not a mechanical so I'm not sure if that would work. Shouldn't make it any worse though as long as it's put in a zip lock bag.
You can try the “freezer trick” if the drive is acting flaky and/or not much else has really been helpful in getting data off the drive. First, let the drive reach about room temperature before proceeding. A sudden change in temperature is not all that healthy for a drive. Afterward, put the drive in a freezer bag (a Ziploc bag will do if there aren’t any freezer bags handy) and squeeze out all the air (leave a little space at the opening of the bag for the air to escape). This is so you avoid condensation while the drive is put into the freezer. Leave it in there for an hour or so. Finally, take it out and slave it to another machine and try to copy over any data you want. This process may need to be repeated a few times in order to copy over everything you need.
What the freezer trick does is cool down all the components of the hard drive. It will cool down the overheating chips on the hard drive’s circuit board (which is a known problem with some models of Maxtor Quantum drives), and as well as allow the platters contract a bit, making it easier for the heads to read the data, thus decreasing read errors. All this “trick” does is buy some time in order to recover your data. In other words, the drive will need to be replaced. If it is still under warranty, RMA it back to the manufacturer.
I ran out of ziplock bag, but now it's being wrapped with those food packaging wraps, no air. Then an anti static bag, taped down with no air in as much as possible..let's just hope this works
P.S. I tested it out again before i put it in - It does not spin
After all that effort, it makes a SCSI/IDE RAID mirror and the cost of an extra hard-drive seem like a good deal!! I've heard about the freezer trick but never known anyone who did it. Congrats on a great save . . . . and as always BACKUP all critical data!
I tried to buy an "identical" drive and swap and curcuit board. It seems like it's the board's problem. The HD started up with a clicking sound, however won't recongnize it due to the difference in the curcuit board (even tho it's the same drive - WD 40GB 7.2k rpm 2mb cache)
They may not be truly identical. One board may have a different revision number. Could also be that the drive has a mechanical fault on it too. An electrical fault could have caused the internals to do something they weren't designed to do.
, does any of you guys know whether there's any way to retrive my information on the drive? Any program, technique i can use to do it?
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