[mdlug] Some odd experience recovering NTFS drive

[Robert Adkins]

I had to spend a good two hours gently tapping a failing drive every... 2
minutes or so in order to keep the platters spinning, which allowed it to
copy the data to the replacement drive.

It worked, but man was that obnoxious.

-Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Michael S. Mikowski
> Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 5:31 AM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Some odd experience recovering NTFS drive
> 
> 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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