and now it's making these scratching noises. I think it's trying to read the disk, but can't. It has a lot of stuff on it. It didn't drop from too high, so i don't think anything is loose (i shook it a bit to make sure). I just think something got misaligned. Does anyone have any solutions they could provide me with?
Right now, i'm trying the hard drive freeze thing.
lol well you could give it to various it companies who can repair it for you but that will cost quite a bit, i say back up everything you want and get new HDD cause you dont know whem that ones just gona fail.
haha. if this works, that's what im going to do. i have to worst luck though. that external was my backup. and i just happened to be reformatting my hard drive which had all the originals......ugh
Probably not a good idea to let it run if you think something is loose or broken. If a disk comes loose it could destroy the case and hurt someone near by.
@swift. haha. no worries. it's enclosed inside an external case. plus im running wires from inside my freezer to my laptop
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Well if its inside your freezer lol. I've heard of Hard Drives that shred themselves and put a few holes in the casing. If it was plastic, I'd be worried about noises.
haha. yeah. i really just want to get the personal stuff off. photos and stuff. the other crap which is mostly media (music, movies, games etc.) i can just reaquire -shrugs-
The scratching noise is probably the header digging into the disc. The freezing technique may work, but I doubt it (what it does is shrink all the parts inside so what might be touching might not touch for a little while, giving you a couple of minutes to transfer files)
I dropped my brother's 500gb Seagate drive inside a NexStar 3 case a couple of weeks ago. Only thing possible was using forensic recovery, but that cost way too much so we're just getting it RMA'd (my bro had backups luckily).
well ive tried it 3 times. no luck. then i left to to freeze for a few hours. and now it wont even read the disk. i think i might have frozen the inside =P
well ive tried it 3 times. no luck. then i left to to freeze for a few hours. and now it wont even read the disk. i think i might have frozen the inside =Plostantix
I've always heard you leave it in the freezer overnight. For like eight hours. If you've already done this and still can't get it to read, you might as well drop it again. It probably won't retrieve your data, but it might make you feel better... :P
screw that. im going to call on the power of greyskull and go hammer time on it =Plostantix
I was only half joking. If the heads are dragging on the platters because of an impact, an impact on the opposite side of the drive (from the first one) might free them up enough to retrieve your data. After that you could go apesh** on it with the heavy bludgeoning tool of your choice. Of course, you'd have to know on which side the original impact took place... :|
Unfortunately it fell just over the other side of the bed which blocked my view. And yeah. No idea. I guess I'll just hit it randomly and hope it works xD
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