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Cuss word! Drive has failed

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pwrusr

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One of seagate's 7200.12 has died on a family member who never backed it up. Any way of reviving it long enough to get it to a point where I can ghost it?
Already tried to freeze the drive for a hour. no go...

FWIW I have two other 7200.12's of the same size (1TB).
Tried swapping the circuit board from that drive to the bad one. All it did was a few click of deaths. no go for data extraction.

Any other ideas?
 
Whoa you froze the hard drive? Why? I'm pretty sure that destroyed it.
 
pwrusr said:
One of seagate's 7200.12 has died on a family member who never backed it up. Any way of reviving it long enough to get it to a point where I can ghost it?
Already tried to freeze the drive for a hour. no go...

FWIW I have two other 7200.12's of the same size (1TB).
Tried swapping the circuit board from that drive to the bad one. All it did was a few click of deaths. no go for data extraction.

Any other ideas?
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Click of death usually cannot be fixed without cracking the case of the drive itself and transplanting the platters into a known good drive. Basically I would just tell the family member all hope is lost and set them up with a dropbox account for next time.
 
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Originally Posted by ZodaEX
Whoa you froze the hard drive? Why? I'm pretty sure that destroyed it.
Freezer trick is a long time trick that can sometimes revive a hard drive long enough to recover important data.
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I have successfully used that trick one time to recover data off a seemingly dead drive. It was cool as right after I finished copying the info it made horrible screeching noises and died.
 
ZodaEX said:
Whoa you froze the hard drive? Why? I'm pretty sure that destroyed it.
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You've been here at [H] for 7 years and you've never heard of this trick? I used it once to successfully pull data from a "dead drive" that worked when it was cool but failed once it warmed back up.
leeleatherwood said:
Click of death usually cannot be fixed without cracking the case of the drive itself and transplanting the platters into a known good drive. Basically I would just tell the family member all hope is lost and set them up with a dropbox account for next time.
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It doesn't click when the orig circuit board is in the drive though. with the other drive's board it only clicked for ~5 times then stopped. I did think about swapping the platters as well, however without a clean room that would be a little difficult. Though I may still do that since there was a bit of important data on the drive.
 
pwrusr said:
Though I may still do that since there was a bit of important data on the drive.
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Ha. LMK how that goes. Seriously :p

BTW to do a PCB swap the firmware needs to be identical on the good logic board. Basically everything has to match up from the color on up.
 
BurntToast said:
Ha. LMK how that goes. Seriously :p

BTW to do a PCB swap the firmware needs to be identical on the good logic board. Basically everything has to match up from the color on up.
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they were identical... at least in hardware/model number. Didn't check the firmware version :eek:
 
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