Thread: Gaaahhh! HDD just died!

I thought it would have warned you via noise or instability first............... Have you checked the power on the drive connection?
If all else fails a nicely judged tap might help if something has jammed????

Originally Posted by RichardK

I thought it would have warned you via noise or instability first............... Have you checked the power on the drive connection?
If all else fails a nicely judged tap might help if something has jammed????

Yep, tried a different power lead - the one that operates the CD-ROM which is working OK (I can boot from CD-ROM)

No indication of impending doom. I went to work this arvo and it was fine, came home and booted up and it was dead.

Ron

Bugga....... looks like a trip to the disk doctor..................... do they get $7K a week too?

Originally Posted by RichardK

If all else fails a nicely judged tap might help if something has jammed????

hmmm maybe not the best thing to do with a HDD.

if the data on your hdd is important it may be possible, (sometimes) to obtain an identical HDD and swap the electronics board. Most likely it's this that has fried rather than mechanical failure. I've done it a few times, twice it worked.

if it's a work computer send your drive to a specialist data recover company and claim the cost off yout tax

failing that and if you are going to trash it try a nicely judged tap
if you do try tapping it make sure you hold it sideways up ie narrow and long side up. That'll prevent the read heads smashing on the platters.

steve

ps before you try this stuff have a good look at the power socket on the HDD check the soldering look for cracks it may just need re-melting.
again this is last resort just before tapping it.

Originally Posted by RichardK

Bugga....... looks like a trip to the disk doctor..................... do they get $7K a week too?

about four years ago I had to get a price, it was one hundered pounds per 1MB that was recovered.
I think it's down to about $2000 per drive now, a good tax right-off though

is it a western digital drive?

some get a motor fault that you can over come by gently tapping on one corner while holding vertical... moves the rotor enough that the motor will then spin so you can recover data..

Originally Posted by incisor

is it a western digital drive?

some get a motor fault that you can over come by gently tapping on one corner while holding vertical... moves the rotor enough that the motor will then spin so you can recover data..

In the dark old days I had a seagate that if you helped it buy giving it a spin it would start

Fortunately, there's none of MY data on it - only my wife's. Hopefully not too much and nothing too important.

It's a Seagate 80Gb. I only bought the PC second-hand two weeks ago.

I'll try your suggestions but hold out no hope.

I can't even steal the HDDs out of my previous desktop, Ii gave it to my son on the weekend so he could use to play with Linux - and he's 200km away.

Ron