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Re: Harddrive noise - any ideas?

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From: BigAl.NZ
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:55

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On Sep 4, 9:43 am, Arno Wagner <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage BigAl...@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

Sorry the link should be http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~acgrant/harddrive.wav

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