External Hard Drive - Data Recovery? (Wheeling Movies are on it!)?
Hey all,
I own a 4YO Western Digital External Hard Drive. It stopped working 2 years ago and I haven't done much with it. Unfortunatly it have several Wheeling Vids on it I want (That got pulled from YouTube) and I don't enjoy them on my Desk-Top, and so I was wondering if anyone have expereience with this.
The Drive size is 60 GB I suppose.
At any rate It powers up when I plug it in via USB but I hear a extremely soft clunk every now and next which leads me to believe that the plunger on the drive is skipping.
The costs I am seeing are like $350. I won;t try and recover at that price. Can't afford it.
"> LOL, it's a complicated drive, not a record player. There is no syringe, and not contact between read/write heads and disk occur in a decent drive. Instead, the read/write head floats on a see-through cushion of air above the surface of the platter inside the drive and is close adequate to read magnetic impulse.
As you probably known, clunking sounds aren't a moral thing. (I'm thinking it's mostly predictable one of the motors that is making the clatter (either the motor that spins the platter, or the motor that moves the read/write heads)
Of course knowing the source of the clunking sound won't serve you much.
First of all, is Windows (or OS-X, Linux or doesn`t matter what OS you are using) able to see the tough drive when it is connected via USB? If so, then try to copy the files you want soon. (Don't leave the drive turned on until/unless you are all set to save your data)
If it can't, the professional information recovery can be quite expensive. ($350 for a drive sounds incredibly cheap. Are you sure of that price?) There is one piece worth trying that *MIGHT* help you recover your data. It's agreed as the "Freezer trick". Essentially you want to wrap your hard drive within a zip lock case tightly (moisture getting in will formulate a bad situation worse) and throw it surrounded by the freezer for a day or so. They help yourself to it out, cross your fingers and hook it up and hope that it works long enough to reclaim your data.
If your information was truly influential, I'd recommend professional recovery instead of the freezer trick, but it sounds like to be exact not the case. It is without a doubt worth a shot.
Also, just so you know I am not comedy, here is the first article I Googled on the subject:
http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01…
If you don't like that article, here are 24,000 more at http://www.google.com/search?q=freezer+t…
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