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potentially dead drive?

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Nihilanth99

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i started up my computer this morning, ate breakfast, and when i came back to log in, the screen was blank. i moved the mouse a bit, heard the hard drive click, then got a hard lock. after a reboot, the board couldn't detect the drive, and it was making some clicking noises. then i tried powering down and powering on the system again, which seemed to work, but i still heard the clicking noise a couple times. before windows started, it went through a chkdsk and found a bunch of bad sectors (i think). then i was in windows for a while, left, and when i came back, i heard this beeping sound coming from the drive, and the screen was black. i havn't tried anything yet, but i sort of fear the worst :(

the drive is a western digital wd1200jb that's about a year and a half old. it's recieved ample cooling for its entire life. i don't know what could've caused this. i'll update as i try more things.
 
I have a question for you, Do you have important data on this drive and would like to recover it?
 
its not 100% crucial, but it would be nice. in the meantime, i've ordered a new drive which should be here tomorrow. once i get it up and running, i plan to hook up the potentially dead one as a slave and see if anything is recoverable.
 
As I noted in another post, But I will note it here also, once you get your drive and try to use the dead one for a slave, then if it doesn't work don't worry, I might have a solution that could help you out.

You said that the drive clicks, to let you know I had this happen to me as well. Each day as I turned on my pc, the sound of clicking from my HD happened everyday, I never noticed it and then my HD gave up the ghost. I tried to get it running, click once, then nothing.

I then knew I needed to recover data from my 60gb, I didn't want to send it to the drivesavers in California and spend $500.00 to get my data back. A thought came to my head, you might consider it strange, but it worked and got all 20gb of data off of my drive.

Heres what you can do: Once you get the replacement, install an OS on it and get your computer up and running. Take your dead drive, walk to the freezer, and put in the freezer. Wait for 4-5 minutes, take it out quick, move fast to place this HD into the computer, set it as slave. Turn on the computer, boot into Windows, go to my computer, you might or might not see the dead drive, if you can open the drive in My Computer, and make a folder on the new HD, then transfer the data from the bad to new.

Even though your Hard drive may seem dead, It maynot be, putting it into the freezer gives the drive a chill, the platters are cold, just like in the enviroment in which the HD was built in. Please let me know if that works.
 
the new drive came today, i loaded windows up just fine, hooked the potentially dead one up, and lo and be hold, it worked :eek: ! for fear that it might die/click at any moment, i quickly copied over everything i could to the new drive. i managed to get all the data just fine. thanks for your help though, it's appreciated :)
 
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