Will Murhpy's Law just leave me the hell alone for 10 minutes?!
Okay, I'm making this one an open post. If anyone out there in the Internet Wonderland has any ideas...throw them at me because I'm at the end of my rope and I can't afford to pay a professional to do this.
Yet again, one of my HD's died. I have the worst luck with this. Except in the past where it's been fixable software issues/glitches and 1 very random case of a recovery disc deciding to recover the wrong damn drive, this one is mechanical.
My big external HD, the one with all my music and photoshop brushes and what have you...it's kaput. The platters spin, but the arm is clicking and now squealing when I power it on. I get the distinct impression that the power going on and off a couple times has killed it even further than it was already dead but ... bear with me here.
I sat down Sunday morning and pulled my new shiny computer out of sleep, only to hear my two craptacular external drives power up, and one of them clicked rhythmically a couple times but ultimately stoppped. O_o...baroo? Okay, well, I may not be a computer hardware wizard but I know the sound of a HD on the verge of death. So I saddle up and go around the corner to Best Buy and get a rather nice drive to replace my two little ones (I figured in a month or so I'd go get another drive so I'd have my two and all would be right with the world again, but for now the one worked). I come home, get the smaller of the two good and copied with no problems and move on to the bigger chore of the other drive. 10 minutes later, my drive is no longer communicating with the computer and has progressed to squealing rather than just clicking o_O. My whole computer locks up and my drive has been about as useful as a paper weight since then.
I know it's due to the arm in some capacity. Whether the platters have shifted or the arm has shifted or something I'm not sure but the arm is the culprit.
After getting online, the biggest thing I found was to strategically shove it in the freezer, swathed in a couple ziploc baggies, and give it any where from 3-24 hours to chill out and then try again. People found this fairly successful to at least get it running long enough to recover the data. The drive is shot but the point is to make it a little electronic zombie and back up the data, then let it go to the big CPU in the sky.
Chyeah...ok. It made the clicking stop but the platters spun and ... nothin happened. They spun, then stopped, spun then stopped again continuously until I heard the tale tell clicking of the arm coming back to life and stopped right where I was at.
So my question to you, oh few and far between readers of my craptacular little livejournal...any other bright ideas?
I swear, my b-day present to myself next month is that 2TB external I saw and it's sole purpose will be for bi-weekly storage backup. Screw burning to discs, I lose those anyway...*grumbles*
Yet again, one of my HD's died. I have the worst luck with this. Except in the past where it's been fixable software issues/glitches and 1 very random case of a recovery disc deciding to recover the wrong damn drive, this one is mechanical.
My big external HD, the one with all my music and photoshop brushes and what have you...it's kaput. The platters spin, but the arm is clicking and now squealing when I power it on. I get the distinct impression that the power going on and off a couple times has killed it even further than it was already dead but ... bear with me here.
I sat down Sunday morning and pulled my new shiny computer out of sleep, only to hear my two craptacular external drives power up, and one of them clicked rhythmically a couple times but ultimately stoppped. O_o...baroo? Okay, well, I may not be a computer hardware wizard but I know the sound of a HD on the verge of death. So I saddle up and go around the corner to Best Buy and get a rather nice drive to replace my two little ones (I figured in a month or so I'd go get another drive so I'd have my two and all would be right with the world again, but for now the one worked). I come home, get the smaller of the two good and copied with no problems and move on to the bigger chore of the other drive. 10 minutes later, my drive is no longer communicating with the computer and has progressed to squealing rather than just clicking o_O. My whole computer locks up and my drive has been about as useful as a paper weight since then.
I know it's due to the arm in some capacity. Whether the platters have shifted or the arm has shifted or something I'm not sure but the arm is the culprit.
After getting online, the biggest thing I found was to strategically shove it in the freezer, swathed in a couple ziploc baggies, and give it any where from 3-24 hours to chill out and then try again. People found this fairly successful to at least get it running long enough to recover the data. The drive is shot but the point is to make it a little electronic zombie and back up the data, then let it go to the big CPU in the sky.
Chyeah...ok. It made the clicking stop but the platters spun and ... nothin happened. They spun, then stopped, spun then stopped again continuously until I heard the tale tell clicking of the arm coming back to life and stopped right where I was at.
So my question to you, oh few and far between readers of my craptacular little livejournal...any other bright ideas?
I swear, my b-day present to myself next month is that 2TB external I saw and it's sole purpose will be for bi-weekly storage backup. Screw burning to discs, I lose those anyway...*grumbles*