Re: Hard Drive Lunched

Wally,

Best of luck to you, hope it works. If it seems to for a short time until
the clicking resumes, you may need to make a 'sandwich' to keep it cool long
enough to recover data. I usually wrap the drive in a paper towel, fill two
sandwich bags halfway with crushed ice, close them, and wrap the resulting
sandwich in a towel. It works long enough to get some amount of data about
20% of the time.

Except for 'clickers'. I've never recovered a clicker alone. That repetitive
click-click ......click-click ...... click-click ..... usually means
repeated re-zero operations in an unsuccessful attempt to find the servo
track. Without it, the drive usually won't even initialize and show up in
BIOS.

The only data I've ever seen recovered from a clicker was recovered by
Ontrack Systems in California, for $2300. The customer's automated backup
had stopped working five months earlier, and wasn't noticed. They did decide
to spend $450 for a controller card and four drives to go RAID-5, tho. It
seemed like a real bargain to them by that time.

Allan

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"WaIIy" <eIvez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Oh, boy.

I turned on my computer and my backup hard drive went clickity click and
that was it.

WD 2 years old. I'm thankful it wasn't my main.

It's now in the freezer and I'll take it out soon and see if that trick
works.



.

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