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Re: Harddrive noise - any ideas?

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From: Arno Wagner
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:43

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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage BigAl.NZ@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Guys,

> I have a rather old Western Digital 20Gig IDE HDD here. The user
> states it started making a noise and of course the computer now wont
> boot.

> I plugged the drive into my PC, and it does not get recognised by the
> Bios (so at the very least the logic board is dead?)

> It makes the following noise repeatedly:

> ftp://homepages.ihug.co.nz/public_html/harddrive.wav

No anon-login here it seems....

> Is this what they call stitchon or is it something else?

If it makes a noise, it is not stiction.

> Anyone able to shed some light?

Likely a case for professional data recovery if the data is 
important and the user was unprofessional enough to
not have a backup. Trash bin otherwise.

Arno

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