**IKV Update**
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So apparently I'm having issues of my own. External HDD decided to take a dump. Stuck in seek mode, can't access any of my files, and we're talking close to 10 years worth of stuff I've collected... Very depressing.
You can pull the disk from the inside and put it in another (same) HDD. I just did that on one that quit. The info is still on the disc if the HDD just quit working.
First try Restore. I keep restore discs for my pcs now.
Hey Loft,
You could try a few things.
Put the drive in the freezer, this can allow the platters to cool and shrink and might be able to read the data on them.
You could try removing the platters and replacing them in another drive. Not so easy IMO and YMMV.
You can run some drive diag programs on the drive to see if any of the data is still there and not corrupt. Most of these are paid programs though.
You could also try sending the drive out and having someone recover the data, but this is something that's YMMV as you might have personal info on the drive and may not want anyone to have any access to it.
I hope you find a way to get some or all of the data back mate. I have a 3TB drive backing up my main 500GB and 2TB drives in Time machine. i also do monthly backups of important stuff that could never be replaced on another 2TB mirrored drive through my NAS box. Redundancy is key when talking about backups. The more backups on more different devices = the better.
Cheers
That sucks when that happens. I have found that, unless it has suffered a mechanical failure, usually you can have Windows scan and repair the drive and you should be able to retrieve most of the data.
I've been slowly recovering it. I can recover 10-15GB chunks before having to stick it in the fridge. I'm not going to stick it in the freezer as I don't want condensation to potentially damage the read/write heads (in case I do decide to try a platter swap...). Still have about 100GB to go... Already planning a NAS build w/ 5TB (RAID 10 config). Need to decide which distro of Linux I want to get ...... off at/use with it... leaning towards either Crunchbang or being super lazy and using Ubuntu.
Edit: Oh sure, I go to purchase the HDD's from NewEgg and the damn site becomes inaccessible. WTF!
I use Unraid - it is kind of a RAID 3/RAID 4, without striping. . You can even do a basic NAS with 3 drives (2 disks plus 1 parity) for free. And there are a lot of great people over on the Limetech forums. I highly recommend it.
FYI
Update:
Day 2 vaping the VV Woodchuck @ 5.3v (15.6 watts) with the IKN 1.8Ω io6 still rocking. This this thing won't die. Today my 3.5Ω attys should be in the mailbox and I'll pull the io6 but honestly I thought it would have died by now.
Update:
Day 2 vaping the VV Woodchuck @ 5.3v (15.6 watts) with the IKN 1.8Ω io6 still rocking. This this thing won't die. Today my 3.5Ω attys should be in the mailbox and I'll pull the io6 but honestly I thought it would have died by now.
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