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08/23/2005 02:22:55 PM · #1 |
My notebook hdd died a couple of months ago. It was making some chirping sounds and it wouldn't spin up. I was pretty upset about it, because I had about 6 months worth of financial data on it and my grandpa's biography that I've been working on with my mom for the last 4 months (typed in hungarian... not easy to retype). Most everything else was backed up except those two files. I looked up some data recovery services... YIKES... $1000-$3000.
So I tried all kinds of things including the freezer trick. No go.
I even opened the thing to try to see if it would be possible to swap platters with a good hdd (good thing I didn't try that... it's guaranteed disaster). Finally I got another drive exactly like it from E-bay, cost me a whole $11.99 and I swaped the circuit board on the bad one with the one from the good one, hooked it up to my desktop computer and sat there literally shaking with anticipation waiting for the moment of truth after pressing the power button.... No chirping... that's a good sign... It seemed like it took an eternity for the computer to boot but when I finally opened the browser and browsed to that drive, it was all there. I was able to recover every last byte of data... (a total of 2G).
I stayed up till 2am to do this but now I can relax... if I could just get myself to calm down from being so excited. Now I'm planning to post some photos of the rescue process.
Clean room?... bah... who needs a stinkin clean room!!!
Did I mention I saved at least $1000?, now if I could convince my wife that I need to reward myself with a nice lens...
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08/23/2005 02:27:37 PM · #2 |
| Yes, lucky it was the controller board instead of media failure. Congratulations! |
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08/23/2005 02:35:24 PM · #3 |
Heh heh heh... Feels good when you cheat data death, doesn't it? :-)
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08/23/2005 02:38:21 PM · #4 |
lol, wow, if i were you i'd still be shaking, i don't handle excitment well, lol
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08/23/2005 02:41:45 PM · #5 |
Wow, good story & good work. Now keep it backed up! ;-)
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08/23/2005 03:07:26 PM · #6 |
thanks for the tip, thats good to know about swapping out the controller board on a bad drive.
I had a power supply explode on me a few years ago and I thought every thing was toast. It sounded just like a gun going off and I nearly peed my pants.
the next day I got a new power supply hooked it up and turned it on. wel it took several minutes to come up, but it did, some programs and files were messed up, but all of my critical data was safe and I backed it all up that day.
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08/23/2005 03:13:47 PM · #7 |
Doh!! I had a drive go bad a few months back. Didn't think to swap the controller board. Instead, I lit it on fire for a Challenge entry:
Oh well, nothing worth saving on it anyway. Great post, Paul! And if you ever need to rewrite your grandpa's biography, I know a 5 year old Hungarian boy who could help. |
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