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"Dead Hard Disk"

Help. My hard disk has died today. Making a wicked crunching noise instead of starting. Windows seems to think it is missing a partition...!

anyway. its dead. i think. Just looked at price list for a data recory agency, and they want about £900. hmmm.

Any ideas? - Turbo? Tyla?

Darkus wrote:
> Hey dudes. It is my hard disk that is dead. - forgot my login. Anyway, The hark
> disk is well and truly dead i think. I couldn't care less about the drive itself
> although the info on there is worth lots to me. Anyone got any ideas or know any
> programs that might be able to get the data back off it.??

i cant even get
> dos to recognise the drive at the moment...
HELP!!!

Oh, sorry. I meant macontingo, not Darkus!

He works at SR. I'm guessing they have at least one computer on the Internet there.

How exactly did you get onto it to post this topic, then?

The fact is, if it won't read you can't do anything. I suggest taking it in to a specialist hardware shop and get them to have a look at it, maybe an SR shop would do. They mat have some tools that will allow them access to it.

Unfortunately it won't be okay.

To have any chance or repairing the drive you'll end up losing everything on it. It sounds like it's past the stage of recovery, and your unlikely to get your files.

It's worth looking around for a while though. You may find a way of getting at least SOMETHING that's important off the hard-drive.

Turbonutter wrote:
> I doubt it, any software you use will need the HDD to be recognised first.

okay, and now give me a more reassuring answer please...!

tell me it will be okay!!!!!!!!

I doubt it, any software you use will need the HDD to be recognised first.

Hey dudes. It is my hard disk that is dead. - forgot my login. Anyway, The hark disk is well and truly dead i think. I couldn't care less about the drive itself although the info on there is worth lots to me. Anyone got any ideas or know any programs that might be able to get the data back off it.??

i cant even get dos to recognise the drive at the moment...
HELP!!!

Turbonutter wrote:
> Don't ask Tyla, he's probably tell you to paint it or something!

My HDD did
> this once. I finally worked out it was because it wasn't plugged in properly.
> Either that or your needle may have jammed, which is a very bad thing. Check the
> connections or do as they say below.

It's definately worth taking this advice. If your HDD was making strange noises it's best to check things inside your computer before you go formatting your hard-drive.

If you don't have any success though, formatting is a good idea. After all, if your going to have to buy a new hard-drive, you might as well try all possibilities to try and fix it yourself.