My

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desbest

Hey
I know this problem is has alot of words to read but please read it.
Yesterday my 500gb capacity drive (i have used up 15gb space) worked fully
which I named BX2BXsq
The next time I got to use my drive, lots of folders were deleted.
I restarted my computer and accessed my drive and this error came up E:\ is
not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device
error.
My hard drive makes a funny clicking sound
I took my hard drive off and then on using another usb port and now it was
called Local Disk
I took my hard drive off and then tried putting it into a mac (Mac OS X 10.4
Tiger) and the mac said that the drive was unreadable.
Now when putting my hard drive in my Windows XP computer, and a speech
bubble came up saying that my hardware was not recognised.
I know for a fact that my hard drive still has precious valuable data.
So have you got any ideas to recover data from my hard drive.
 
B

Bjarke Andersen

I know for a fact that my hard drive still has precious valuable data.
So have you got any ideas to recover data from my hard drive.
Click to expand...

When they drive first start to make click noises, it is due to mechanical
errors.

They are no guarantee to get access to the data stored, the drive have
failed.
 
M

Malke

desbest said:
Hey
I know this problem is has alot of words to read but please read it.
Yesterday my 500gb capacity drive (i have used up 15gb space) worked fully
which I named BX2BXsq
The next time I got to use my drive, lots of folders were deleted.
I restarted my computer and accessed my drive and this error came up E:\ is
not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device
error.
My hard drive makes a funny clicking sound
I took my hard drive off and then on using another usb port and now it was
called Local Disk
I took my hard drive off and then tried putting it into a mac (Mac OS X 10.4
Tiger) and the mac said that the drive was unreadable.
Now when putting my hard drive in my Windows XP computer, and a speech
bubble came up saying that my hardware was not recognised.
I know for a fact that my hard drive still has precious valuable data.
So have you got any ideas to recover data from my hard drive.
Click to expand...

As Mr. Andersen told you, the clicking noises are a clear indication
that the hard drive has physically failed. The only way to get data off
this drive now is to send it to a professional data recovery company.
Software methods cannot work on a physically damaged hard drive.

Send the drive to a professional data recovery company like Drive Savers
(my preference) or Seagate Data Recovery. General prices run from
$500USD on up. Drive Savers recovered all the data on a failed laptop
drive for one of my clients and it cost $2,700. He thought it was worth
the money; only you know what your data is worth. I understand that some
insurance companies are now covering data recovery charges so check with
yours.

Drive Savers - http://www.drivesavers.com
Seagate Data Recovery Services - https://www.seagatedatarecovery.com/

When this is over, create and implement a backup strategy that will make
sure your "precious valuable data" is available even after drive
failure. All hard drives will fail, eventually. Most hardware will
either fail very soon after you get it or go for years (the "bathtub
curve"), but eventually all things must die so Be Prepared with redundancy.


Malke
 
L

Lance

desbest wrote the following on 1/21/2008 01:14 AM:
My hard drive makes a funny clicking sound
Click to expand...
I know for a fact that my hard drive still has precious valuable data.
So have you got any ideas to recover data from my hard drive.
Click to expand...

There's very little chance of retrieving data off this drive without
paying for a company to do it for you.

But try this for a last chance desperation move - unplug the drive from
the computer and electrical power. Let it cool off for several hours,
perhaps overnight.

While it is cooling think about what is the one most important data file
on that failed drive, 2nd most important, 3rd, etc.

Try the drive again, if it works you may only have a few minutes to copy
what you can.

Most likely it won't work. Then give up and swallow the bitter pill of a
lesson learned. We've all been there - in my case it was 300,000 lines
of software code and all we had was a paper print out...

Lance
*****
 
D

DL

Thats ripe, coming from someone who posts in html

SPAM

blatant advertising



(e-mail address removed)


Malke
 
G

Gordon

David B. said:
You have no clue what your talking about. BTW it's poor netiquette to post
in html noob.
Click to expand...

he's been told that SO many times it's not worth it anymore - just killfile
the idiot.
 
M

mikeyhsd

as per microsoft news group rules

We ask that you refrain from posting advertisements or solicitations that do not pertain directly to the intended use and purpose of the newsgroup or chat.

https://www.microsoft.com/library/gallery/components/wn/3/locales/help/help_en-US.htm#RulesofConduct

you can also check for html usage.


by the way, grow up and join the 21st century instead of the 19th.

teletypes went out a long time ago.
not even western union uses them any more.
they use computers programmed in HTML.




(e-mail address removed)



David B. said:
You have no clue what your talking about. BTW it's poor netiquette to post
in html noob.
Click to expand...

he's been told that SO many times it's not worth it anymore - just killfile
the idiot.
 
D

David B.

I fail to see the "advertisements or solicitations" in Malke's reply.

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as per microsoft news group rules

We ask that you refrain from posting advertisements or solicitations that do
not pertain directly to the intended use and purpose of the newsgroup or
chat.
 
M

mikeyhsd

clean your glasses.



(e-mail address removed)



I fail to see the "advertisements or solicitations" in Malke's reply.

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Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
_________________________________________________________________________________


as per microsoft news group rules

We ask that you refrain from posting advertisements or solicitations that do
not pertain directly to the intended use and purpose of the newsgroup or
chat.
 
M

M.I.5¾

SPAM

blatant advertising

---------------

How can a recommendation of a service to someone with a problem be 'blatant
advertising'.

And don't post in HTML.
 
M

M.I.5¾

Lance said:
desbest wrote the following on 1/21/2008 01:14 AM:



There's very little chance of retrieving data off this drive without
paying for a company to do it for you.

But try this for a last chance desperation move - unplug the drive from
the computer and electrical power. Let it cool off for several hours,
perhaps overnight.

While it is cooling think about what is the one most important data file
on that failed drive, 2nd most important, 3rd, etc.

Try the drive again, if it works you may only have a few minutes to copy
what you can.

Most likely it won't work. Then give up and swallow the bitter pill of a
lesson learned. We've all been there - in my case it was 300,000 lines of
software code and all we had was a paper print out...
Click to expand...

OCR software is so good these days. ;-)
 
M

M.I.5¾

teletypes went out a long time ago.
not even western union uses them any more.
they use computers programmed in HTML.
 

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