Re: Corrupted hard drive
- From: "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:40:23 +0100
Mark F wrote in news:agfqm3po9ie75etqecckjqe61nc9d3dhen@xxxxxxx
dipdog <dipdog.31ytjm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a quick question about a failed hard drive. I have a hard drive
that's giving me the "click of death". It's a data drive, no OS, but it
has alot of family pix on it that I never backed up (about 8gb). I'd
like to save the data, but it's also not worth it for me to spend too
much money. I found a repair service in RI that offers hard drive
repair for $100, but does not offer to do any physical repair other than
loose external connectors.
The failure occurred after transferring the
drive to an HDD enclosure and hooking that up to another computer.
Worked fine until then. Really have no clue why it failed. So my
question is, has anyone ever experienced the "click of death" occurring
for any reason other than physical head failure (ie. something that
could be fixed without opening the hard drive up)?
1. What is the exact make, model, firmware, etc. of the drive?
Ooh, an expert.
2. What access, if any were you able to make to the drive? (For.
example, if the drive was an eSATA drive, did the BIOS show the
drive, or, if USB/IEEE-1394, did the enclosure appear at all to the
operating system.)
Before proceeding further, please note if the drive is in the process
of completely failing, rather than just having had a few defective
blocks develop, ANY activity on the drive may make things
3. Have you tried back in the original system in the enclosure?
4. Have you tried putting the drive in the original system using the
original power and data connections?
You can try other solutions also.
5. Have you tried Spinrite (http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm)
Price is about $90.
Spinrite might take a day to run at the highest level of fixing,
even if only a few hard errors are found. (Typically it takes
an additional 5 to 30 minutes to fix each sector that is sick and
can't be fixed. Each segment that was sick and can be fixed
add some time to the basic running time at the highest level,
but I think this time is more like a second per segment, but
I don't remember for sure.)
6. Prosoft Engineering (www.prosofteng.com) reputedly has a
product that can be set to do limited error recovery while making
a copy of a drive. It might be possible to use this tool to
copy whatever can be copied without working hard and then use
another tool to fix the file system metadata enough to get back
most of the data. I think that this tool is "Media Tools
Professional" or "RecoverSoft Data Rescue PC".
"Media Tools" is about $400, and "Recoversoft Data Rescue PC"
$100 to $349 depending on how you want to use the product and
if you want MAC support.
Note: I'm going on hearsay here: the guy that I hired
to fix my disk tried the Media Tools Professional and it
couldn't fix the problem. Spinrite fixed the problem (8 bad
sectors), at which point didn't feel like spending $400 without
having a test case to tree limited recovery on. (I didn't
have the hired guy try to fix the problem for more than a limited
time since at $65/hour I felt I was better off buying the software
than having the hired guy run the software. [I could let the
drive out of my sight/site and the repair shop wouldn't let me
rent the software overnight.])
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