Paul
If the disc is at least rotating, you can try to get the same model from
ebay exchange the electronics and see if you can resurect it, there is
not much to loose, and this is only if you have a valuable data in it.
If you think that the head's motor is bad ( repeated scratching noise
from the disk guts) then that is a no way story. I keep an external
200GB disk for all my data and software backup, and it was quite
inexpensive, I purchased an internal new 200GB HD and an external
USB2/Firewire enclosure and put it together. I do not keep this drive
connected all the time just when it is needed. And I also keep another
data set on a second computer. This is something that the digital
camera comunity has to take into account. This generation will loose
their family history if they have most of the pictures saved in their
family PC's hard drives. I can still make copies of the pictures my
mother took of me when I was born, raised etc etc ( negative, positives
film!). Wait 5 or 10 years from now. There are going to be a lot of
people without those memorable moments because a "Hard Drive where dad
had all the pictures is gone" or the CD where it was stored can not be
read, etc etc.
Hope you can get the data back.
Angel Ramos
Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Paul Stenquist wrote:
I looked into having the data retrieved from my failed Western Digital
drive. $3500 was the best price I could find. Of course I didn't do it.
Paul
On Jul 27, 2005, at 7:02 PM, Kevin Waterson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's often the case that a drive failure is a symptom of something
else being wrong rather than the problem itself. As I've been told it
by repair techs, the major reason for drive and controller failure is
poor power stability. Most of the less expensive computers on the
market have marginal quality voltage supplies and voltage regulation
which is somewhat suspect, thus many drive failures.
At the end of the day, if you have a drive failure, the data can be
recovered if you are willing to spend a few dollars, even if the
drive has been formatted and a new file system put on it.
I am not espousing this as solution for a good achiving system
just a last resort.
Kind regards
Kevin
--
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
