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 Posted: Thu, 23rd Feb 2006 01:41 Post subject: Dead harddrive? |
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Last week my F harddrive was running insanely slow up to the point of it being alive but not worth running.
I rebooted and since then I cant power up with it plugged in. My connectors are all fine as are my other drives but as soon as I plug it in it's a no go  . It loads the windows logo and the bar, and once that has gone it just stays black. My power light remians on all the time too. i've waited about 5 minutes and tried it several times and it's not getting anywhere.
Is there a way to try and fix this problem? test the hardrive on its own? salvage some of the data?
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Feb 2006 01:53 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Is there a way to try and fix this problem? test the hardrive on its own? salvage some of the data? |
It's got a lot of stuff on there that I wont be able to get back |
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Feb 2006 02:22 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Feb 2006 02:23 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Feb 2006 02:35 Post subject: |
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 by recovering my files i meant a few (about 45) rare films and a few thousand books. i'm not paying £$£$ to recover them though!! |
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_SiN_
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Feb 2006 02:58 Post subject: |
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No no, I have them all backed up on DVD 
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Feb 2006 03:07 Post subject: |
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| Sublime wrote: | | No no, I have them all backed up on DVD |
please send copy... how much to ship em to the states?
as for your problem: I had a similar problem with one of my maxtor drives. Eventually after trying a ton of times it just worked and I copied all the data to one of my other drives. I know this doesnt help much but maybe it will give you some hope. |
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Feb 2006 22:47 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 24th Feb 2006 00:08 Post subject: |
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no  I tried it in my other PC this afternoon and it just said 'primary slave disk failure' or something like that
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| Posted: Fri, 24th Feb 2006 00:39 Post subject: |
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Put a table fan on the HD, let it cool down, then quickly copy the files to c:/
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| Posted: Fri, 24th Feb 2006 00:50 Post subject: |
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try whacking it in the freezer overnight. I hear that works alot.
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| Posted: Fri, 24th Feb 2006 01:13 Post subject: |
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it's chilled though :'( Its been out of my PC for 2 days and it's got the 'cold' feeling to it. It made a dirty scratching noise when I connected it to the other PC. What's worse is I'm starting to remember all the shit that's on the drive like my Complete south park set, extras, the office, the office Us, Joey and band of brothers 5 DVD set (ok some of that isn't impossible to get back) but the SP was envious!
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| Posted: Fri, 24th Feb 2006 01:58 Post subject: |
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( It made a dirty scratching noise when I connected it to the other PC.)
Is a done deal......
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| Posted: Fri, 24th Feb 2006 02:17 Post subject: |
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I feel for ya sublime. I still haven't recovered all my music lost in a similar event. You just have to let it go m8. More important things in life (that may not be true but it helps if u tell ureself that).
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| Posted: Fri, 24th Feb 2006 02:20 Post subject: |
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I know that but Some of the shit ive lost I wont be able recover either such as pictures and such which are more of a problem than these files too. quite a lot of the stuff i lost is stuff I save whenever I need to reformat.
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| Posted: Fri, 24th Feb 2006 05:51 Post subject: |
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NEW REVELEATIONS PEOPLE!!
So ive managed to boot with it plugged in. Ran a chkdsk and a /r on it. It crashed at stage 4 but thats not a problem. If I can use a harddrive recovery proggie i might be able save it. From the chkdsk it looks like ive only lost 3 films too! Rather happy at this present moment in time 
Any reommended data recovery proggies?
edit: FUCK YEA!!!!!!! files = fine even the ones i thought id lost!!!
o and p.s. Freezer = for batteries not harddrives
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| Posted: Fri, 24th Feb 2006 09:36 Post subject: |
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which brand was it ?
Last edited by Mortibus on Fri, 24th Feb 2006 14:58; edited 2 times in total
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| Posted: Fri, 24th Feb 2006 17:30 Post subject: |
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It's hitachi and pretty old might i add
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| Posted: Fri, 24th Feb 2006 18:26 Post subject: |
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havent had an ibm die yet, had a maxtor die quickly and get a growing amount of bad sectors making data recovery impossible. my new maxtor is making strange noises so ive advanced rma'ed it. not happy my 2 other maxtor ide's have only 1 year warranty while the sata one has 3..
The night is dark and the road is long. Come on dead men, return to your homes.
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| Posted: Fri, 24th Feb 2006 23:22 Post subject: |
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From my working experience it's hard to tell wich brand is the worst, ibm/hitachi has been the worst by far when they introduced their DTLA series, but hitachi did recover from that in terms of quality. However the general quaility and longevity of todays hard drives has decreased considerably. Though SCSI and SAS drives are still good but very expensive.
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| Posted: Fri, 24th Feb 2006 23:30 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sat, 25th Feb 2006 01:02 Post subject: |
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I love the newer Hitachi drives. Quite and well built, last long and fast! Love them!
Always been Seagate before for me and only 1 of those ever crashed for me. Nowadays I get both hitachi and Seagate and I don't complain about either of them.
Behold his GLORY! Bow for the technical master!
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| Posted: Sat, 25th Feb 2006 01:24 Post subject: |
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I´ve had my 80 gb Seagate for over three years now, wich i bought after a Deskstar crash. Not one problem ever with the Seagate disk. I´ve had/seen many Deskstars crash, i´ve also had 1 Westenr Digital crash (2 crashed for my friend, same 120 gb model).
Watercooled 5950X | AORUS Master X570 | Asus RTX 3090 TUF Gaming OC | 64Gb RAM | 1Tb 970 Evo Plus + 2Tb 660p | etc etc
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