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Broken WD 500gig HDD. Help?
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Broken WD 500gig HDD. Help?
My dad has a 500 Gig Western Digital external Hard Drive. He gave it to me asking if i could get the data off of it. I took it out of the enclosure and hooked it up to my computer via SATA. I turn the computer on and i hear a clicking noise for a couple seconds and then it stopped. Bios does not detect the HDD. I tried using the Lifeguard tools that WD has, but no luck.
__________________Next thing i was gona try was a program that someone told me about called Knoppix. Its a Linux OS that can be booted from CD and has some nice Data recovery tools. I have never used it so i was wondering if anyone has some info that might help me with that. If that doesnt work i also read somewhere that putting the HDD in the freezer overnight might get it to work for 15 minutes or so. That hopefully is all the time i need to grab all the data off of it. Any advice or info about anything that could help?
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If you are hearing a clicking it is probably a bearing or read/write head issue. The freezer method works well in most cases. You could also try doing a hot swap.
How valuable is the data on the actual drive? There are companies that can recover data from dead drives, but it is very costly.
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Yes the freezer will work if all else fails... And I thing WD offers data recovery but like Legend said... $$$
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i dont want to hijack the thread, but whats the freezer method??
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I had that before with a HDD. My PC woulnd't boot and the HDD was making a horrid sound.
That PC is long gone, but what's the freezer method?
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Standard method is to put the drive in an air tight zip lock bag for a few hours and let it cool. You'll get a short period of time when the drive may work due to the 'chill' factor.
It's worked wonders many a time. 
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Hmm it was 1 hr? I was gona do it overnight heh.
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BUt yeah, as for the Info... its my dads... not sure... When the HDD thaws out and stopes working... can i try it again.. or is it lost?
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