Gilly
06-19-2007, 04:48 PM
okay
my friend's external hd is broken.
here's the message I read from him
and I said I'd post it here and see what your thoughts are
as of last week, I am the proud owner of a 250gb wd mybook external hard drive. a knackered one, that is. it took a fall of the desk, and came crashing down a whoooleee metre, and well, it ain't lookin' good. yup, so there's all my music and videos gone. canny shite, yeah?
from here i have a few options. i could... pray i get lucky, and drop it and hope it fixes itself? try the same technique but with a hammer? open it up, probably wreck it by getting dust or particles in it, and mess around with the parts? take it to a professional?... the list goes on... no way am I forking out the £££ to have the data professionally recovered, and I don't have the know-how nor the skillz nor the extra hard drive to switch the parts over, so I've decided to go with a last ditch effort. the ol' freezer trick. there's some scientific explanation to it that I'm not sure of, but legend has it that leaving a dead hard drive in the freezer will allow two minutes to two hours of extra working time in which the aim of the game is MOVE YOUR SHIT AS FAST AS YOU CAN.
problems. I'm gonna need somewhere with a decent amount of space to move the data to. reckon I should get a new external hard drive for my birthday (which is exactly a month from now!) and do it then? I'll need a new one anyway, and I have less than a gigabyte of space on the internal hard drive, so not enough to move much over from the dead hd. also, will it need reinstalling if it starts working again? will it install in time to leave enough time to move over anything to another drive? eh, i suppose it's not too bad really, considering what I cooouuldd have to deal with. like, for example, if it was an internal drive. then it'd have to be took out of the computer so it could go in the freezer, and if I booted up with it after 'freezing' it it'd probably die before I even got to log in, because of how much it'd heat up and general time wasting, so it'd have to be used as a secondary or external drive. which means I'd need another drive to go in its place to boot up with. fortunately it's external so it'll be a hundred times easier. sooo thank god for that
anyway. I'm thinking maybe rather than bring it back over to the computer I could just run it from inside the freezer? get some extension cables? or I could stick it in one of those mini-fridges I suppose. hahahah. I don't know if the logic to that is correct, like. it depends if it has something to do with the change in temperature when it's brought back into the heat after being in the freezer, or if it's just something the cold does to it. I'll have to do some googling...
yeah. so this is a bit crap. I'll just be glad to get the hard to find stuff back, the rarities.. I know I shouldn't get my hopes up or owt, but dear lord it'll be proper good if this works
my friend's external hd is broken.
here's the message I read from him
and I said I'd post it here and see what your thoughts are
as of last week, I am the proud owner of a 250gb wd mybook external hard drive. a knackered one, that is. it took a fall of the desk, and came crashing down a whoooleee metre, and well, it ain't lookin' good. yup, so there's all my music and videos gone. canny shite, yeah?
from here i have a few options. i could... pray i get lucky, and drop it and hope it fixes itself? try the same technique but with a hammer? open it up, probably wreck it by getting dust or particles in it, and mess around with the parts? take it to a professional?... the list goes on... no way am I forking out the £££ to have the data professionally recovered, and I don't have the know-how nor the skillz nor the extra hard drive to switch the parts over, so I've decided to go with a last ditch effort. the ol' freezer trick. there's some scientific explanation to it that I'm not sure of, but legend has it that leaving a dead hard drive in the freezer will allow two minutes to two hours of extra working time in which the aim of the game is MOVE YOUR SHIT AS FAST AS YOU CAN.
problems. I'm gonna need somewhere with a decent amount of space to move the data to. reckon I should get a new external hard drive for my birthday (which is exactly a month from now!) and do it then? I'll need a new one anyway, and I have less than a gigabyte of space on the internal hard drive, so not enough to move much over from the dead hd. also, will it need reinstalling if it starts working again? will it install in time to leave enough time to move over anything to another drive? eh, i suppose it's not too bad really, considering what I cooouuldd have to deal with. like, for example, if it was an internal drive. then it'd have to be took out of the computer so it could go in the freezer, and if I booted up with it after 'freezing' it it'd probably die before I even got to log in, because of how much it'd heat up and general time wasting, so it'd have to be used as a secondary or external drive. which means I'd need another drive to go in its place to boot up with. fortunately it's external so it'll be a hundred times easier. sooo thank god for that
anyway. I'm thinking maybe rather than bring it back over to the computer I could just run it from inside the freezer? get some extension cables? or I could stick it in one of those mini-fridges I suppose. hahahah. I don't know if the logic to that is correct, like. it depends if it has something to do with the change in temperature when it's brought back into the heat after being in the freezer, or if it's just something the cold does to it. I'll have to do some googling...
yeah. so this is a bit crap. I'll just be glad to get the hard to find stuff back, the rarities.. I know I shouldn't get my hopes up or owt, but dear lord it'll be proper good if this works