Termyn8or
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I thought the threead was about PCs, but who am I to talk.
Two suggestions. Buy good drives. Seagates are great usually, but I seem to get a better deal on Diamondmaxes. FYI Diamondmaxes are designed for use in TIVO machines and DVRs, which is one of the most demanding applications for a harddrive. They are also very quiet, but quiet in a mechanical device implies reliability, it is waste force that creates noise. So these things have incredibly light heads, after all they might be asked to read and write simultateously for hours on end.
I would never buy a Western Digital or any of the off brands.
Also now that you are restored, I would suggest getting another HD and doing a clone, and doing it periodically. My HD didn't go bad but a software install destroyed the OS on it, so I just got out my clone. Lost about a month worth of stuff. Norton ghost is the prodram to use, but if you have alot on the drive it might take all night. It did for me but I got 60 gigs of info, videos and such. We are talking years of downoloading from two, sometimes three P2P networks. Also, if anyone needed PC work and had anything substantial I would copy that too. I was like an addict, and now have reached the point where there is nothing much to download anymore. The stuff I loook for now is so rare that I don't always find it.
And, no, actually they like me to copy their stuff, in case their HD goes bad they have a backup, I simply burn them CDs of it.
So think about a backup on another drive once you start having something to save. For me it's too big for CDs, but the last drive I bought was an 80 gig, 7200 RPM Diamondmax 10. It was $52 and included shipping. This is a quality drive. It saved my ass.
I have had one Diamondmax fail, but between us chickens, I dropped it. I am not sure if I dropped it hard enough to cause the failure, but post hoc ergo procter hoc. I ran their diagnostic on it and read the errors reported on the phone, and Maxtor replaced the drive for free.
Now I don't always practice what I preach, but I'll tell you this, when a drive gets over ½ full it works harder, just the right time for a failure eh ? That's why I clone, it is much faster than burning, even though for some of us it takes all night. I just start Ghost and go to bed.
The OS on my other drive is shot, but can be fixed, it just takes time. What'll be easier is to just clone back to it from my running drive.
From what you said it sounds like one of the motor drive ICs went bad. If you get an identical drive and swap the PC board it is not likely to work. Sure you could probably format it and use it again, but there are parameters in EPROM that store values to compensate for minor mechanical difference in the heads etc. Also there are some bad sectors on almost any drive, and the map of those is stored as well. If you can find someone with the tools to change those SMD ICs, you have alot better chance of success. If a shorted motor caused the IC to go bad, you are fucked fucked fucked.
Then you have to find a way to change it and that will require removal of the platters. If there is only one there is hope, but you need a cleanroom to do it. You can make a mini cleanroom that will suffice, but then we get into, is it worth it ?
Are we just talking the OS and drivers and Word and all that or was there all kinds of valuable things on it ? Baby pictures, downloaded stuff, things saved from the internet that you might not be able to get again ? If not, it is probably not worth persuing data recovery.
May I ask if the failed drive was a Western Digital ? They are notorious for failure. Actually they may have improved over the years, I wouldn't know, I haven't had one in a long time. They fuck fuck fucked me one too many times. What I lost on that last one cannot be gotten again.
Keep the two cents, this shit happened to me so this could be considered a rant.
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I support way too many stores already anyway
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