Hard drive failure!!! help

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CodeMinion

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Is there any tips someone can give me that I can use to try and save about 15 gigs of data off a failed hard drive that will not load. While it is connected to my computer the computer seems sluggish while starting up even tho bios detects the hard drive. Once in windows I can not see the hard drive in the My Computer window. This drive was a place i stored pictures, school work, resumes, and other random things. I rather not go through some data recovery company because that is pricey.

I heard there are some things I can do to get access to the drive one final time. Anyone have any ideas that I can try?


the drive is a Seagate Barracuda 250 gb 7200
 
I've heard of double bagging hard drives inside of two ziplock freezer bags and popping the drive in the freezer, but I have no idea if it works, nor would I personally wish to find out. Other than that, I think your best bet is to cross your fingers and hope you can copy off your important files before it fails completely.
 
what might be an option, is installing a ssd drive. it's like this; kingston ssd's come with cloning software that allows you to transfer the data from hdd to ssd. it might even work with hdd to hdd because it works with ssd to ssd. it's kingstons own software, but i can't remember the name for now.
 
clahman said:
what might be an option, is installing a ssd drive. it's like this; kingston ssd's come with cloning software that allows you to transfer the data from hdd to ssd. it might even work with hdd to hdd because it works with ssd to ssd. it's kingstons own software, but i can't remember the name for now.
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But if his hard drive is dead...
 
bkribbs said:
But if his hard drive is dead...
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never came across a dead hdd before. but it was also wurth mentioning it because some others is buying ssd's and maybe they need to buy cloning software on top of that. and kingston, i read seem only one combining the 2.
 
clahman said:
never came across a dead hdd before. but it was also wurth mentioning it because some others is buying ssd's and maybe they need to buy cloning software on top of that. and kingston, i read seem only one combining the 2.
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Ok, well you will come across one eventually LOL.
 
About all harddrive manufactures have clone/drive to drive copy software. Regular or SSD, makes no difference.
 
CodeMinion said:
Is there any tips someone can give me that I can use to try and save about 15 gigs of data off a failed hard drive that will not load. While it is connected to my computer the computer seems sluggish while starting up even tho bios detects the hard drive. Once in windows I can not see the hard drive in the My Computer window. This drive was a place i stored pictures, school work, resumes, and other random things. I rather not go through some data recovery company because that is pricey.

I heard there are some things I can do to get access to the drive one final time. Anyone have any ideas that I can try?


the drive is a Seagate Barracuda 250 gb 7200
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How did you hook it up in your PC... It would be preferable to try have it hooked up to the second IDE connector as Primary not as a slave to primary on the same cable.
Try this and see how you go.
 
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