[mdlug] Some odd experience recovering NTFS drive

[Michael S. Mikowski]

Yup, the drive is almost certainly toast.  However, if you need that one last 
read to get your data off, an old trick is to chill the drive first by letting 
it soak in the refrigerator for 5 hours or the freezer for 1.  I did this 
before, and was able to extract the data before the drive went south again.

Another trick that some claim work is to strike the drive fairly hard against 
a table before powering it up.  It /might/ reseat the bearings a bit and again 
give you a chance to pull some data.  However, you probably want to do this 
after all other methods fail.  If nothing else, the physical abuse to the damn 
thing might give you some degree of satisfaction ;)

Cheers, Mike


On Friday 05 June 2009 01:46:26 pm David McMillan wrote:
> 	My little sister has a laptop running XP Home (I know, I know, but she
> *had* to have it for software her classes required), and the hard drive
> started making odd noises (rattling noise, like the heads never stopped
> seeking) a while back, accompanied by BSODs and eventually "No Boot OS
> found" from the BIOS.
>
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