Click of death

When you say EXACT, you ain't kidding. EXACT model down to the very last letter
in the model identifier. Any less of a match and swapping circuit boards on a
drive will not work.

I was lucky to find an exact match for a failing drive once, managed to copy the
data, then had to deal with a totally unappreciative client who had no clue what
a stroke of luck it is and the relative difficulty of salvaging the data.

Recently, I was not so lucky, and my client ended up paying a couple of thousand
dollars to get back all her business data, which had not been backed up
properly. Client now has a USB hard drive and can plug it in to make copies
periodically... Ben Myers

On 24 Aug 2006 20:00:15 -0700, "" <> wrote:

>
>Tim wrote:
>> My parent's 8gig Maxtor has the click. Nothing critical on the drive, but a
>> lot of pics. Is there a CHEAP way to recover data?
>
>THe click of death is pretty fatal.
>
>There are a couple of DIY techniques, none even remotely guarenteed.
>There is an element of risk to all of these.
>
>1) Freeze the drive to get it temporarily working. Copy data off as
>fast as you can.
>
>2) swap controller card. You need one from the EXACT model of hard
>drive.

When you say EXACT, you ain't kidding. EXACT model down to the very last letter
in the model identifier. Any less of a match and swapping circuit boards on a
drive will not work.

I was lucky to find an exact match for a failing drive once, managed to copy the
data, then had to deal with a totally unappreciative client who had no clue what
a stroke of luck it is and the relative difficulty of salvaging the data.

Recently, I was not so lucky, and my client ended up paying a couple of thousand
dollars to get back all her business data, which had not been backed up
properly. Client now has a USB hard drive and can plug it in to make copies
periodically... Ben Myers

On 24 Aug 2006 20:00:15 -0700, "" <> wrote:

>
>Tim wrote:
>> My parent's 8gig Maxtor has the click. Nothing critical on the drive, but a
>> lot of pics. Is there a CHEAP way to recover data?
>
>THe click of death is pretty fatal.
>
>There are a couple of DIY techniques, none even remotely guarenteed.
>There is an element of risk to all of these.
>
>1) Freeze the drive to get it temporarily working. Copy data off as
>fast as you can.
>
>2) swap controller card. You need one from the EXACT model of hard
>drive.

Ben Myers wrote:
> When you say EXACT, you ain't kidding. EXACT model down to the very last letter
> in the model identifier. Any less of a match and swapping circuit boards on a
> drive will not work.

Even more exact than that. Match REVISIONS on the controller card.

Ben Myers wrote:
> When you say EXACT, you ain't kidding. EXACT model down to the very last letter
> in the model identifier. Any less of a match and swapping circuit boards on a
> drive will not work.

Even more exact than that. Match REVISIONS on the controller card.

Freezing didn't work. I need a bigger hammer... It shows in device manager
but won't populate. I may give SpinRite a try.



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Well, yes. Revision info is often part of the part number... Ben

On 24 Aug 2006 22:26:51 -0700, "" <> wrote:

>
>Ben Myers wrote:
>> When you say EXACT, you ain't kidding. EXACT model down to the very last letter
>> in the model identifier. Any less of a match and swapping circuit boards on a
>> drive will not work.
>
>Even more exact than that. Match REVISIONS on the controller card.