Internal hard disk trouble any solutions?
Well I left a laptop on overnight with its new charger and when I tried to boot it up the next day it got to the Samsung screen and no further at the bottom is says f2 setup or f4 recovery and I have tried both of these even with the system restore disk in and it appears to think but actually does nothing. I removed the back to have a look and everything seems normal, removed the hard disk and switched it back on and could enter setup but of course do nothing else. I tried the youtube trick of putting it in the freezer but still no joy. I then removed it and tried it in a different laptop but it would only claim that the hard drive is not installed. Should I give this hard drive up for dead or is it worth buying a cable and trying connecting it as a slave to recover the data?
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Don’t try to fix your harddrive by manipulating it physically.
Temperature, shaking, etc. All will make it worse.
Try an external case for the drive. These are fairly cheap. If you can then access it you have hope of being able to fix it yourself.
>If all data is fully accesible, then copy it immediately to another drive.
>If you can access the drive, but not the data, then stop all efforts and contact someone who knows what he’s doing.
If the drive doesn’t spin up, you could consider an expert data-recovery company. That will be very expensive, though
what do you reckon the chances are that the data is still on it and accessible?
Chances are really good if it still spins and acts like it’s trying to access the drive.
There are free programs you can try (I’m assuming Windows) and it will just cost you the price of the enclosure, which is pretty handy to have anyway.
well I have ordered the enclosure and will give it a go
It is also worth trying a possible remedy, reseat connectors at both ends of the cabling between the hard drive and wherever the other end of the data cable and the power cable go.
But the external enclosure approach is definitely worth a try as well, good luck.
I just spent the whole weekend pulling data off of a broken drive. Replacement is your best bet as repairing hard drives requires special skills and equipment…like a clean room.
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