Hard Drive Recovery

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't... 

I have 'waken up' unresponsive HD by gently tapping them sideways.
It seems like the arm 'sticks', and I just bump them vertically against a 
surface and SOMETIMES work...
Sometimes.
YMMV.
ET 

 

Michael Havens writes: 

> You are a comedian too! I have some drives I tried this with but it didn't
> work; I have a different situation, the drives were out in a shed for about
> a year.... is there any hope?
> :-)~MIKE~(-: 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:11 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
> kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote: 
> 
>> This is what I've done in the past:
>> Seal the HD inside a plastic bag in the driest environment you can find.
>> Leave it overnite in the freezer (there are other opinions, I'm just
>> stating what/how has worked for me)
>> Have a puter ready and much better if you can hot-plug the thing.
>> Have enough space for the FULL drive and get ddrescue or dd-rescue (they
>> *ARE* different, and I have to research it every time).
>> Lite candles, do your prayers, find you a goat to sacrifice, pull the HD
>> out of the plastic bag, wrap it in paper towel in case you get some
>> condensation and go for it.  Sometimes I keep it super-cool wrapped around
>> some of those freezing gels.  I have never used dry ice but I have thought
>> about it.  The explanation has to do with some internal tolerances being
>> reduced to the point that it temporarily functions.  I try to disturb the
>> drive as little as possible during the copy.  All this may be just VooDoo
>> and sorcery, but again, it has worked for me.
>> YMMV...
>> ET
>> PS: Free advice, can't sue me...   :) 
>>
>>
>> Eric Cope writes: 
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I have a Western Digital 2.5" hard drive that spins up, but makes a
>>> terrible clicking sound at approximately 1Hz. The clicking is bad enough
>>> you can feel it when holding the drive. I did some reading on line, and
>>> its
>>> beyond my skillset. Does anyone know if affordable drive recovery? The
>>> data
>>> on this disk is not worth thousands, but may be worth 100s.
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Eric 
>>>
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