My hard drive sounds like its falling down stairs

[sheik124]

So, I get my new PC, set it up, and its working like a beauty, so I put it on the same workgroup as my old one in order to get all my stuff off it so I can do a HP Recovery (yes i know HP PCs suck but my dad bought it, now i get to make any PCs we ever buy) and give it to my little sisters, only one problem. While this thing is setting the sharing properties for the 15 GB of irreplacable data on there, it starts to make a weird "Ka-BONK Ka-BONK Ka-BONK" noise, so thinking its the "Click of death" I go back there and pull the plug before it fuxxorz itself over. The HD in there is a Maxtor and I have never really been happy w/one of their drives and about 4 months ago it suffered from data corruption to some critical booting files, so I used a second blank HD i had, did a restore to that disk, plugged the old one in, and re-wrote that one file. I have the PC off now but the HD still works and no data has been lost and I am getting a replacement HDD for that PC, but I am just wondering, should I copy the recovery files from the old HD to the new one while its in that PC or should I put them into this PC and do them here because i boot off a SATA drive and can have both the old HP drive and the replacement plugged in here and transferring files w/o having to boot into them. Damn this is long

 

[liteuser]

Hi,


If you can I would pull that harddisk with the data on it out and plug it in as the slave drive of your new pc then copy any data you want .
As for the restore on a new harddisk if you have the full restore kit then why copy the restore files for the original hardrive that may be corrupted.
Just use the kit to write the new hardrive and install windows.
If you dont have the full kit then yes by all means copy the data.
My drives are western digital so i never had any problems with compatability.
Best advice is stick with what you know will work.

Hope I understood what you were asking. Best of luck

 

[sheik124]

you understood me perfectly, only reason i am copying the recovery partition is because, well, that is the medium that shit HP provides the recovery software on, rather than on a bunch of cds like an older HP i had, nuf said i am building all my pcs from now on, to hell with storebought

 

[liteuser]

Yeah thats right , heh

Same here im building my own from now on.

 

[sheik124]

anyone else got any pointers?

 

[Kaoss626]

It really won't matter which PC it's in IMHO.

Just pray that the thing holds out long enough to copy the files. Copying the files might thrash the head back and forth a bunch making the problem worse. You might try a drive or partition image program like norton ghost (usually included in Norton System works for the same price as just Ghost, more software for the same $) and make a image of the partition which will ensure you get ALL the files AND the partition and FAT data. This way you make sure you get everything. If for some reason the recovery partion has bootable info (and I suspect it might) it will still work copied to a new drive. Otherwise if you copy the files and you need boot sector stuff or hidden stuff you missed, you might be SOL doing a recovery in the future.

 

[sheik124]

great, i am just wondering, if i used Partition Magic (only thing i have at the moment) and used the Partition Copy function (or something like that) would it be the same as using Ghost? otherwise i can just borrow norton from my friend. by the way, i have the HD in my new pc (this one) and i have been using it for days w/o clunking, a good thing is, it was perfectly 100% defragmented before it clonked out in the old PC so i know that all single files are in one piece

 

[Kaoss626]

dunno about PM's partition copy... never used it... We always used Ghost at the computer store that I worked at

 

[Gorxon]

If I were you I would get out the most important files while it's still working. Then you take out the less important files and keep on going until you have it all. You will have to reinstall windows if that was on the disk, but you have to do that anyways (yes, I know Ghost has som ghosting of XP image, but it does not always work...Hardware Application Layer error anyone?). If you copy a whole partition you will stress the disk over a longer period, and what would do if the partition copy failed midways because the disk crashed?

Well, Im not tech expert, but that is what I would have done since you say that it's in a quite good state atm...

Good luck

-edit-

Uh..figured my post was way off point. I read your post earlier today, but didn't reply then. So when I decided to reply I didn't care to reread your first post (yeah, bad bad me). Ah well, the good luck still applies