AGGH!! First HD Death.. Need some help..

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HyperTension

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OK, while playing COD4, I go the wonderful BSOD... OK... Reboot and this is what comes up after BIOS

3rd Master S.M.A.R.T. Status: Bad, Backup and Replace. Hit F1 to continue.

If it hit F1, nothing occurs.. The system just hangs in limbo.

Now for the bad news. This is a 500RE2, It had about 5 years worth of music, FLAC, TV series, and movies that I had encoded. In other words.. ALOT. What options do I have to see if I can recover any of this data?

I'm not familiar with LINUX / recovery tools. Any help here would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks gents..
 
HyperTension said:
Completely silent. I've tried different SATA cables / Power cables as well.
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I don't think there's much you can do then.
when it's completely silent Windows/Linux or even your BIOS won't recognize it.

you should double check your cables and make sure there are no broken pins or dust.
or try a different computer.
 
BIOS knows its there, but fails the SMART? Any place that I can ship it to for data recovery?
 
try throwing it in the freezer for a bit, then slapping it in and see if it works. If it does, you may only be able to get some of the info off before it crashes again, but good luck.

btw, "a lot" is two words :p I don't usually edit spelling because I'm no good, but for some reason a lot just gets me
 
trying a different computer is useful. see if you can do that before the freezer trick, that method tends to be a little permanent.
 
"Freezer trick" is not a very good idea if the data is important! Yes, sometimes it works, but people already brought twice to us the drive after they tried it and some heads were literally torn off! There is about the same level of humidity inside as outside, if ice is formed between head and surface and then it doesn't have time to evaporate - you can imagine the results...
 
NeGrusti said:
"Freezer trick" is not a very good idea if the data is important! Yes, sometimes it works, but people already brought twice to us the drive after they tried it and some heads were literally torn off! There is about the same level of humidity inside as outside, if ice is formed between head and surface and then it doesn't have time to evaporate - you can imagine the results...
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That's true, but sometimes it's the only possibility before throwing away.
 
Like a few said before, you'll probably have to find a data recovery place which is going to cost you quite a bit.

God, I've never had a drive fail on me (knock on wood) and I still have a couple of my drives from 7 years ago D:
 
You can try putting it in as a slave on another computer and booting a program called ERD COMMANDER. you may be able to transfer you data to the primary drive. Another option you can do is hooking it up via an adapter and plugging it into the USB in another computer and see if it recognizes it.
 
If you are going to try to have a recovery service recover the data, stop playing with it. You may make things more difficult and possibly increase your costs.

I have been successful a couple of times with the freezer trick. I have only tried it on drives that start out working and then fail when they heat up. I simply use the trick to extend the time I have to pull data.

Put the drive in the freezer for about a half hour. You want it to be cold, but not frozen solid. Take it out and wrap it in a towel to reduce condensation on the drive. Hook it up to a system with a working Windows install and try to get to your data.

Don
 
If the drive isn't physically bad, move it to a different machine or boot Knoppix or a Windows PE build.

You can get knoppix at http://www.knoppix.org
The file you are looking for is KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
Burn it to a CD, boot your system off it. Knoppix attempts to mount drives in read only mode, so you won't screw up your data.

Once your in if knoppix can read the drive, you can copy it to a USB device or another drive
 
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