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HD Clunk
Name: raincheck Date: April 20, 2004 at 14:17:52 Pacific OS: n/a CPU/Ram: n/a
Comment:
A clients HD just started making a clunking sound and died today. It recognizes the HD controller, then pauses a long time and says primary disk failure, meanwhile it's clunking away. I know there's little to no hope, but is there anything aside from sending it to a data recovery place to possibly salvage the HD long enough to ghost the contents onto another HD? I've heard stories of putting it in the freezer for a while...anybody got any tricks?
Name: antoeknee Date: April 20, 2004 at 14:30:14 Pacific
Reply:
Done this in the past and sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.
If its a clients drive take safer route and send for data recovery
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Response Number 2
Name: Badboy Date: April 20, 2004 at 20:01:43 Pacific
Reply:
Put it in the freezer. What have you got to lose? If it doesn't work, you won't have damaged it (more) so that you couldn't send it in for data recovery.
Be ready to pull data off if it does work. The "freezer fix" is usually only temporary.
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Response Number 3
Name: tropic Date: April 20, 2004 at 23:24:59 Pacific
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Man, you guys are plain crazy! I had to try it once, and it actually saved my butt.
I've heard that the drive heads expand during the life of the drive, and they eventually have problems "fitting" in a single data track. The freezer trick supposedly shrinks the heads enough to stave off I/O errors until the heads heat up again.
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