failed Hard drive

[timdog]

Re: failed Hard drive

it doesnt seem to be clicking. so i think the platters are good to go.

[timdog]

Re: failed Hard drive

nice - i was thinking the same thing (replace the circuit board) but the drive is kinda old so i couldnt find any replacments online.

It's a seagate 7200.8 250GB drive.

[R_Ethug]

Re: failed Hard drive

if its clicking your prolly screwed unless you take it to a recovery shop that pulls the platters and moves them to another one

[Kordain]

Re: failed Hard drive

what make and model number is your drive, we keep a large group of old drives at work just in case a circuit board goes down on one and we have to transplant, worked a few times in the past. Its usually a chip that dies, you may even be able to see where its volcano'd.

I have no idea about recovery firms but ill ask at work (on monday)

[timdog]

Re: failed Hard drive

p.s. the drive is IDE.

[timdog]

so i had a hard drive fail on me today, with some pretty important data on it. i'm an IT guy but still was not smart enough to back it up regularly. all my pictures from trips to europe and mexico, etc are on there plus important financial data and stuff I definitely need. has anyone gone to any of these data recovery places?
i am not talking deleted data here, but a failed HDD. windows doesnt see it, linux doesnt see it. it seems to power up and doesnt seem to make any really audible noises except for the usual hard drive spinning sounds. if i 'scan for hardware changes' in device manager several times, it will pick it up every once in a while, and then crap out 1 second later. cant even see the drive letter pop up in my computer.
anyway, wondering if anyone had any hookups or know of any decent recovery places to go? it's a 250GB drive but there is really only about 20GB of data I need. the rest is movies, tv shows, some games and stuff like that. i googled some data recovery places in calgary but most are closed for the weekend so i won't know anything until Monday. they also seem to charge atleast 4 or 500 bucks which is a little steep. i am willing to spend up to 200 bucks or so.


Tim