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Old October 7th 03, 04:21 PM
Bob Day
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"John Smith" wrote in message
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Hi:

I am trying to find information on how to recover data from a nearly-dead
HD. e.g. The HD spins and makes clicking noises.

What I'd like to do is to find out how I can extract data from it. Yes, I

am
aware there are specialists out there who can recover data, but I want to
know how to do it myself.


Check into Easy Recovery at:
http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery/

-- Bob Day
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Old October 7th 03, 04:30 PM
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"John Smith" wrote in message
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Hi:

I am trying to find information on how to recover data from a nearly-dead
HD. e.g. The HD spins and makes clicking noises.

What I'd like to do is to find out how I can extract data from it. Yes, I

am
aware there are specialists out there who can recover data, but I want to
know how to do it myself.


IF all else fails, you can try some sophisticated techniques. For me,
freezing the drive overnight helped give it 40 minutes of additional life
until the COD (click of death) came back. This was enough time to backup
the data, etc. Be aware of condensation, didn't bother me but that could be
luck.

A fellow IT guy also told me that dropping it or hitting it with a hammer
worked, but I have never tried this.

--
Mike


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Old October 7th 03, 05:27 PM
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"John Smith" wrote in message
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Hi:

I am trying to find information on how to recover data from a nearly-dead
HD. e.g. The HD spins and makes clicking noises.

What I'd like to do is to find out how I can extract data from it. Yes, I

am
aware there are specialists out there who can recover data, but I want to
know how to do it myself.

TIA


You might try hooking it as a "slave" to a working computer. You might be

able to access it.


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Old October 7th 03, 08:43 PM
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On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:30:13 -0500, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "gorf" wrote :

"John Smith" wrote in message
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Hi:

I am trying to find information on how to recover data from a nearly-dead
HD. e.g. The HD spins and makes clicking noises.

What I'd like to do is to find out how I can extract data from it. Yes, I

am
aware there are specialists out there who can recover data, but I want to
know how to do it myself.


IF all else fails, you can try some sophisticated techniques. For me,
freezing the drive overnight helped give it 40 minutes of additional life
until the COD (click of death) came back. This was enough time to backup
the data, etc. Be aware of condensation, didn't bother me but that could be
luck.

A fellow IT guy also told me that dropping it or hitting it with a hammer
worked, but I have never tried this.


Heh.heh.
Had to do the fridge trick with a pal's Maxtor.Got the Data off and
Maxtor honoured their 3 year warranty no quibbles



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Old October 8th 03, 12:23 AM
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If you happen to have several thousand dollars worth of disk recovery
equipment laying around you should have no problem. Otherwise ...

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"John Smith" wrote in message
...
Hi:

I am trying to find information on how to recover data from a nearly-dead
HD. e.g. The HD spins and makes clicking noises.

What I'd like to do is to find out how I can extract data from it. Yes, I

am
aware there are specialists out there who can recover data, but I want to
know how to do it myself.

TIA





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Old October 8th 03, 03:42 AM
John Smith
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Default Recovery data from a conked HD?

Hi:

I am trying to find information on how to recover data from a nearly-dead
HD. e.g. The HD spins and makes clicking noises.

What I'd like to do is to find out how I can extract data from it. Yes, I am
aware there are specialists out there who can recover data, but I want to
know how to do it myself.

TIA



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Old October 8th 03, 08:46 AM
John Smith
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"Bob Day" wrote in message
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"John Smith" wrote in message
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Hi:

I am trying to find information on how to recover data from a

nearly-dead
HD. e.g. The HD spins and makes clicking noises.

What I'd like to do is to find out how I can extract data from it. Yes,

I
am
aware there are specialists out there who can recover data, but I want

to
know how to do it myself.


Check into Easy Recovery at:
http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery/

-- Bob Day
http://www.bob.day.name



Thanks...



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Old October 8th 03, 08:47 AM
John Smith
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"gorf" wrote in message
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"John Smith" wrote in message
...
Hi:

I am trying to find information on how to recover data from a

nearly-dead
HD. e.g. The HD spins and makes clicking noises.

What I'd like to do is to find out how I can extract data from it. Yes,

I
am
aware there are specialists out there who can recover data, but I want

to
know how to do it myself.


IF all else fails, you can try some sophisticated techniques. For me,
freezing the drive overnight helped give it 40 minutes of additional life
until the COD (click of death) came back. This was enough time to backup
the data, etc. Be aware of condensation, didn't bother me but that could

be
luck.

A fellow IT guy also told me that dropping it or hitting it with a hammer
worked, but I have never tried this.

--
Mike



Thanks... the darn thing is going into fridge now.


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Old October 8th 03, 08:56 AM
John Smith
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"Patch" wrote in message
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"John Smith" wrote in message
...
Hi:

I am trying to find information on how to recover data from a

nearly-dead
HD. e.g. The HD spins and makes clicking noises.

What I'd like to do is to find out how I can extract data from it. Yes,

I
am
aware there are specialists out there who can recover data, but I want

to
know how to do it myself.

TIA


You might try hooking it as a "slave" to a working computer. You might

be
able to access it.



mmm... I will also try that... Thanks


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Old October 8th 03, 05:33 PM
rotor
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:49:43 -0700, "John Smith"
wrote:
Yes Just give it a light tap with a hammer and it should spring into
life for long enough for you to recover your stuff!!!
Hi:

Just curious... if I had the budget, what kind of disk recovery equipment
would I need?

TIA

"DaveW" wrote in message
news:cWHgb.519197$cF.186849@rwcrnsc53...
If you happen to have several thousand dollars worth of disk recovery
equipment laying around you should have no problem. Otherwise ...

--
DaveW



"John Smith" wrote in message
...
Hi:

I am trying to find information on how to recover data from a

nearly-dead
HD. e.g. The HD spins and makes clicking noises.

What I'd like to do is to find out how I can extract data from it. Yes,

I
am
aware there are specialists out there who can recover data, but I want

to
know how to do it myself.

TIA








 




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