hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it?

[wowzer]

thermaltake blacX

It was cheap, but really handy today.

[wowzer]

Damn...the drive clicked and clacked for about 1 minute, then it seemed to have died completely. A partial scan was done with data rescue, but the app informed me that the drive just disconnected itself.

Ugh.

[Ken Sp.]

wowzer wrote:
Damn...the drive clicked and clacked for about 1 minute, then it seemed to have died completely. A partial scan was done with data rescue, but the app informed me that the drive just disconnected itself.

Ugh.

Freezer trick might help.

Rather than do repair---just try to extract data---quickly

[wowzer]

Freezing HD now...

[space-time]

High Definition Freezer?

[wowzer]

High def, low def...I'll take it at 30 fps/60fps/but I'd like to have the data. The drive was hot and clicking horribly.

[Ken Sp.]

After many hours in the freezer make sure you have a small fan to blow cool air across the drive when you try to copy data.

Some sort of heat sink might also help.

[space-time]

Ken Sp. wrote:
After many hours in the freezer make sure you have a small fan to blow cool air across the drive when you try to copy data.

Some sort of heat sink might also help.

and if it still fails, you could try to leave in the fridge/freezer and run a USB cable out, this is like a last resort measure after you gave up on the data (and if you do not want to send it to a data recovery service)

[Buzz]

Rather than the USB cable out of the freezer, I use blue ice in a small cooler, as it's much more portable; and convenient :-)

Again, as noted, harvest data, rather than trying to view, or repair stuff.

[Ken Sp.]

Buzz wrote:
Rather than the USB cable out of the freezer, I use blue ice in a small cooler, as it's much more portable; and convenient :-)

Again, as noted, harvest data, rather than trying to view, or repair stuff.

If so---Pictures please :-)