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Argg.. hard disk failure

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vtrac

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My storage drive just failed. Yesterday I heard the drive spin up to speed, only to power down and then spin up again, over and over. My computer was still working, because the drive was just coming out of power save. So I turned it off, waited a while and booted again. When it came up, one of the two partitions on the drive was fine, but Windows detected an unformatted drive and asked if I wanted to format for the other partition. Now the drive is disconnected, but I think the data is still there.

Anyone got good data recovery software?

Unless I can find some backups, I think I've lost 10-20 gigs of valuable data, namely pictures from an Asian trip. There was a bunch of stuff I've downloaded from Bittorrent, but I don't really consider any of that valuable.

ARg.
 
vtrac said:
My storage drive just failed. Yesterday I heard the drive spin up to speed, only to power down and then spin up again, over and over. My computer was still working, because the drive was just coming out of power save. So I turned it off, waited a while and booted again. When it came up, one of the two partitions on the drive was fine, but Windows detected an unformatted drive and asked if I wanted to format for the other partition. Now the drive is disconnected, but I think the data is still there.

Anyone got good data recovery software?

Unless I can find some backups, I think I've lost 10-20 gigs of valuable data, namely pictures from an Asian trip. There was a bunch of stuff I've downloaded from Bittorrent, but I don't really consider any of that valuable.

ARg.
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The freezer trick?
 
If the drive won't spin up, no amoutn of software is going to do you any good. This will probably be a good lesson for you to back up things you truly want to keep.
 
RancidWAnnaRIot said:
The freezer trick?
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ya the freezer trick does work, put your harddrive in the freezer maybe 12 hours.
what i think it does is the hard disk it self well expand, and some who it well work;)
 
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