I feel ill
My 200 gb external hard drive is dead. Dead. DEAD.
It was working fine yesterday. This morning the light was blinking strangely. Odd, I thought. Just now I checked it. It is not spinning up. Windows XP is not recognizing it. It is whirring and then it clicks and turns off, and starts up again, whirrs, clicks, turns off, starts up, ad infinitum.
No, I do not have a recent backup of the important stuff on there. It was just about full.
YES, I KNOW I SHOULD HAVE BACKED IT UP. I back up my other stuff religiously. YES, I'VE LEARNED MY LESSON.
I tried changing the drive enclosure, no luck.
I found this: http://www.hddrecovery.com.au/metatraffic2/track.asp?mtr=/PDF/200ways.pdf
... and am trying the first thing, freezing it.
I don't have a 'desktop' computer so I'm going to have to find someone's to borrow so I can see if the drive can be recognized by the system BIOS. If not, I am seriously F'D.
Most of those 'data recovery' services charge an arm and a leg ... I just got an online quote from one: $500 plus $125 per gig, up to $2500. WTF. Nice how they gouge a person when they're really desperate.
It was working fine yesterday. This morning the light was blinking strangely. Odd, I thought. Just now I checked it. It is not spinning up. Windows XP is not recognizing it. It is whirring and then it clicks and turns off, and starts up again, whirrs, clicks, turns off, starts up, ad infinitum.
No, I do not have a recent backup of the important stuff on there. It was just about full.
YES, I KNOW I SHOULD HAVE BACKED IT UP. I back up my other stuff religiously. YES, I'VE LEARNED MY LESSON.
I tried changing the drive enclosure, no luck.
I found this: http://www.hddrecovery.com.au/metatraffic2/track.asp?mtr=/PDF/200ways.pdf
... and am trying the first thing, freezing it.
I don't have a 'desktop' computer so I'm going to have to find someone's to borrow so I can see if the drive can be recognized by the system BIOS. If not, I am seriously F'D.
Most of those 'data recovery' services charge an arm and a leg ... I just got an online quote from one: $500 plus $125 per gig, up to $2500. WTF. Nice how they gouge a person when they're really desperate.
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