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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. Check into Easy Recovery at: http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery/ -- Bob Day http://www.bob.day.name |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 ... 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 -- Free Windows/PC help, It's a G not a J in jmx to reply http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html Free songs download, http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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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 ... -- 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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Recovery data from a conked HD?
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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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"Bob Day" wrote in message ... "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. Check into Easy Recovery at: http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery/ -- Bob Day http://www.bob.day.name Thanks... |
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"gorf" wrote in message ... "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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"Patch" wrote in message ... "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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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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