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Article #492Re: Harddrive noise - any ideas?
From: PeeCee
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:09
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:09
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<BigAl.NZ@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1188856515.107599.296970@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com... > 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 > It's dead! Two options. 1 Toss it and explain to the owner the virtues of 'backups' 2 Send the drive to one of those recovery outfits that remount the platter(s) in a special jig to recover the data. nb have plenty of $$$$$ to hand. Paul.
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