On Aug 12, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Hartmut Hillmann wrote:
(I already tried the freezertrick.)
thanks karen
What is the freezer trick???
sometimes you can revive a disk that won't mount by sticking it in the freezer for a while, then plugging it in cold. It will sometimes work well enough for you to recover the data off of it before it dies again.
But if the drive is making repetitive 'CLICK...CLICK...CLICK' noises, it's 99% a goner; that means the head stepping mechanism has gone bad. The only way to recover data then is a data recovery service, they take the platters out and try to read them with their equipment. Pricey; usually it's a *minimum* of $1,000-1,500 for most hard drives, at least with services I'd trust, like Drive Savers.
But it's a bargain if you have $5-$10,000 (or completely irreplaceable) worth of data on the drive...
Sometimes you can replace the controller on the drive (the circuitboard part) and get a drive going then, but for that you need to know it isn't the mechanical part of the drive and a known good controller card off of the same model (and sometimes size) drive.
This is viable if you do something like what a buddy of mine did, and put a drive into a tight fitting case. Taking the drive out of the case (for some reason or another, I think to reset the SCSI ID) he watched in horror as he scraped a bunch of surface-mounted components off the controller.
OOPS!
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