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sp00

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So my parent's hard drive crashed. It makes 2 clucnking noises after they turn it on. I think the heads have crashed. Anything I can do (I don't think there is) or does anyone recomend a good place that recover disks? Also what kind of prices will they be looking at for recovery?

thanks
 
Originally posted by sp00
So my parent's hard drive crashed. It makes 2 clucnking noises after they turn it on. I think the heads have crashed. Anything I can do (I don't think there is) or does anyone recomend a good place that recover disks? Also what kind of prices will they be looking at for recovery?

thanks
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You could try cooling it and throwing it in another computer, to see if you get anything out of it. (Plastic bag + freezer is the usual way)

Otherwise, you're looking at lots of money. Hd recovery is expensive.
I don't know how good these people are, but they're the US partner of a company I would recommend.
 
The freezer trick *does* work, but only for about 5 minutes... so you better know exactly what data you want, and get it off quickly.

:)

Good luck, and make sure you emphisize the *backup* aspects of a computer!

-Skystalker
 
when my hd crahsed a while ago i was looking at 800-1200 dollars for data recovery. They wanted almost 500 up front not guranteeing any data.
 
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