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So I was upgrading my PC the other day. Going from a drive setup of two ATA133 drives, 60gb System and 80gb Storage -> 480gb SATA150 RAID 0 with a 100gb ATA133 for compressed back-up (You lose everything if any drive in a RAID 0 fails). The R/W access to the drives is noticeably better.

I copied everything off my 80gb Storage drive to the RAID array before I went to bed. Woke up the next morning with little time and figured I would copy the System drive stuff over after work...

When I got home the 60gb drive had the click & beep of death. The BIOS no longer recognizes it. All my email, My Documents, Pictures, College & Highschool stuff - everything. Gone. I've tried on several PCs to get the drive to work just long enough to copy the vitals off, but no luck. I looked into Data Recovery companies, but it would be between $500 and $1000 :( I even tried chilling the drive in the freezer to shrink the heads (that's most likely what's dead - probably to overheating) - no dice.

Anyway, I'm mad depressed and will be rebuilding my system over the next few days - so if you don't see me online, that's why.

Anyone have a zero-static environment and replacement harddrive heads I could borrow? :( Let this be a lesson - back up your stuff! :(
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Post by Lachlan »

You and Zhut have something in common this week. Except that his PSU died too and the replacement caught fire.

You two are cursed.
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there is a recovery program i have that is used by... lets say the authorities that allgedly has a 85% complete recovery rate... if that would help ya i'll try to dig it out
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Please, dig away - I've got nothing ot lose here and everything to regain :(
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Re: Worst. Luck. Ever.

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FN wrote:So I was upgrading my PC the other day. Going from a drive setup of two ATA133 drives, 60gb System and 80gb Storage -> 480gb SATA150 RAID 0 with a 100gb ATA133 for compressed back-up (You lose everything if any drive in a RAID 0 fails). The R/W access to the drives is noticeably better.

I copied everything off my 80gb Storage drive to the RAID array before I went to bed. Woke up the next morning with little time and figured I would copy the System drive stuff over after work...

When I got home the 60gb drive had the click & beep of death. The BIOS no longer recognizes it. All my email, My Documents, Pictures, College & Highschool stuff - everything. Gone. I've tried on several PCs to get the drive to work just long enough to copy the vitals off, but no luck. I looked into Data Recovery companies, but it would be between $500 and $1000 :( I even tried chilling the drive in the freezer to shrink the heads (that's most likely what's dead - probably to overheating) - no dice.

Anyway, I'm mad depressed and will be rebuilding my system over the next few days - so if you don't see me online, that's why.

Anyone have a zero-static environment and replacement harddrive heads I could borrow? :( Let this be a lesson - back up your stuff! :(
if you really want it back, getanother of the same drive
build a plastic box (like in the movies where they deal with viruses and rubber gloves, swap platters.
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Lev wrote:if you really want it back, getanother of the same drive
build a plastic box (like in the movies where they deal with viruses and rubber gloves, swap platters.
I'm pretty sure you'd need a clean room for this. A single speck of dust on those platters and they're toast.
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I've heard of it being done in a bathroom (seal the door with ducktape, turn on the shower to make it hot and steamy, then wait for the steam to pull the dust out of the air and settle) but that was online and we all know that if it's on the internet it must be true.
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Post by DAGGERZ »

u could use ur fridge just put shrink wrap over the opening with the door open tape a pair of ruber gloves to it for with no fingers on them so u can feel what ur doin and wolla u have a dust free enviroment. and tbh clean rooms aint as clean as u might think.
worked in a few in my time for the medical industry and formula 1 racing.
The room went that way ->>>>
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Lynx wrote:
Lev wrote:if you really want it back, getanother of the same drive
build a plastic box (like in the movies where they deal with viruses and rubber gloves, swap platters.
I'm pretty sure you'd need a clean room for this. A single speck of dust on those platters and they're toast.
newb, the box is your clean room :) oh also you need to blow air through a hepa filter for a couple few days first. preferably two.
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DAGGERZ wrote:u could use ur fridge just put shrink wrap over the opening with the door open tape a pair of ruber gloves to it for with no fingers on them so u can feel what ur doin and wolla u have a dust free enviroment. and tbh clean rooms aint as clean as u might think.
worked in a few in my time for the medical industry and formula 1 racing.
yeah exactly, the trick is to just get the macroscopic dust out, not nessecarily everything, and besides there are varying levels of "clean" in clean rooms.
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Post by Buck »

OMG, screw that crap, just pop the sucker open, swap the platters, and duct tape it shut. Thats what I'd do, couldnt get much worse. Unless you could fix/save it without opening it, I wouldnt bother to have some professional do it, cost too much, just consider it a learning experience ;)
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