Hdd crash -> options

[Remote]

If it doesn't even show up in the bios, the electronics are fried.

Which could make it expensive to reconstruct? Although hard to know what part is fried, if it's the connector that would be pretty easy to switch for someone in the know but if all is fried it's lost..

*buhu*

 

[blizz]

it is actually possible to get all geeks and replace the electronics/ forcibly remove the platters and recover the data but it's cheaper and easier to pay someone to recover your porn collection.

 

[Slougi]

it is actually possible to get all geeks and replace the electronics/ forcibly remove the platters and recover the data but it's cheaper and easier to pay someone to recover your porn collection.

I don't recommend that - you could do a lot of damage to the platters, by just making one itsy bitsy mistake soldering some connection...

 

[Remote]

I don't recommend that - you could do a lot of damage to the platters, by just making one itsy bitsy mistake soldering some connection...

Doing it myself isn't gonna happen but I'll have to search through all my cd's to see if I can find a backup of the backup, if that's the case I would be so happy..

And blizz of course it's not porn, all the important stuff is backupped on cd

 

[Modem]

Eh. Partition it? What the hell are you talking about? He wants to recover his data.

Okay, first, I read the last few ones, and your harddrive is likely just dead, like everyone has pretty much said.

And second, the REASON partitioning would help it, is that you can partition off the bad part of the harddrive.

For instance, I have a small 40 gb harddive that is approximatly 1/4 dead (using in backup computer), meaning I Have 30 gb left. Without formating it, I partitioned off the 1/4 of the harddrive that was BAD, made the computer not recognize or even try to see the 10 gb that had gone bad, and the computer then was able to install stuff on the harddrive without having a chance of trying to write anything to the part of the harddrive that had gone kaput, and is now stable as any harddrive.

But, as everyone has said, this guy's harddrive is likely just plain ol' dead, and it seems that there's other people with the same problem.