I'm ready to throw my HDD to the trash...unless...

guillaume · Aug 13, 2005

Wel it's a 2001 30 Gb Deskstar that won't initialize (constant clicking sound, not seen in the bios). My guess is that it's done for, but then again I've seen pretty amazing things happen in the forum, so I thought I'd ask the experts before throwing it away. Anything I coudl do to revive it long enought o backup some of the data? Thanks!

Midnight Dream · Aug 13, 2005

put it in a sealed back, get all the air out that you can, and freeze it for about a day. That will help sometimes, but once you go to put it back in, do everything QUICKLY. Be fully prepared before you start.

Yuriman · Aug 13, 2005

Midnight Dream said:
put it in a sealed back, get all the air out that you can, and freeze it for about a day. That will help sometimes, but once you go to put it back in, do everything QUICKLY. Be fully prepared before you start.

I have heard of this as well. Usualy the drive will work for a few minutes before re-dieing.

guillaume · Aug 14, 2005

to the freezer it goes then! Thanks for the tip, I'll post the results!

Son1990 · Aug 14, 2005

Wow...this should be intresting. I never thought of freezing it...kinda like austin powers being frozen and then given life again after a few years except this is with a hard drive and its a few minutes heeheheh

~ken

WarriorII · Aug 14, 2005

there's a 200 page hdd revival guide somewhere on the 'net, that i've run across a few times here & there.

G/L with it.

guillaume · Aug 18, 2005

Well, that didn't work, oh well, no critical data on it anyway...

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