Resurrect your crashed hard drive

do it yourself

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• hard
• disk
• technology

[natkhatgopal]

Wrapping makes all the diffrence when freezing ;)

[the1hero1of1time]

my computer crashed like crazy, it wouldnt come on right and all that stuff. they had a black screen, then a blue one and it flashed and all. my grandpaw fixed it. i even formatted c drive partition. all he did was unplug one of my hard drives, and i still had all of my stuff. and my grandpaw is 61 years old, he's smart. he also fixes laptops

[natkhatgopal]

@the1hero1of1time thats gud news. its just that may b ur hard disk has gone bad..the blue screen generally appears when there's sumthing wrong wid a piece of hardware... unfortunately its very difficult to fix such a drive coz the reason is generally faulty electronics in the HDD!

[elemental0wnage]

i have a question,

I'm stupid and I've never backed up my c: drive..

and now when i try to open it it says :cannot read, possibly corrupt data" (but it still show that the drive is there when i open my computer, but it says it has 0 bytes) are there any good programs that can fix it? i would do that chkdsk thing, but i'm affraid of permanently loosing data...

[natkhatgopal]

@elemental0wnage chkdsk will not format ur drive it will jus scan it for errors.I think u can try some version of partition magic, but i'm not sure if it will help u. since it seems ur OS is running so theres nothing wrong wid ur hard drive.may b its jus an OS prob. u shud connect ur HDD to some other PC den istall partition magic on it and see what u can do. Best of luck though.

[SCiWiZZ9812]

idk wat rong wit mines

[natkhatgopal]

@SCiWiZZ9812 niether do I.

[ymuzaffar]

You saved my life (hard disk actually). I had a Western Digital HDD and at one point I switched off the PC and it wouldn't boot unless i detached that HDD

Your freese and spin technique seemed funny and I didnt think it would work but I had nothing to loose so I tried it

I wrapped it, zip locked it, frooze it, yanked it and pluged it in, started my PC and IT WORKED. copied all my data on a new HDD.

So a big THANK YOU is the least I could say.

[dickmorrison]

ok guys after being quoted almost $3000 dollars i said what the hell, put my 1 terabyte western digital in the freezer overnight, i was pretty desperate it actually worked for a good 5 minutes , copied some important files then put it back in the freezer for a couple more hours, just copied the almost 2GB I needed :-)

thank you so much!!!!

[vidmanproductions]

Awesome video, shall try these methods tomorrow , thanks again (:

[bait28]

fuck, i forgot to try this. i already sent my drive off for my RMA. shit. there goes 1 TB of data

[MegaAkad]

I had a clicking external drive i ended up changing the cable and it ended up stop clicking -3

[Puniksem]

See this video which says DO NOT place your HDD into a freezer, however they didn't wrap it first.... youtube.com/watch?v=ad1uVAB5bN­A&feature=related

[phihaley]

But this aint spam is it,my god people fuck this off!!!

[Williamt84]

I had a HD that was stuck, tried the technique you suggested and WOW it worked....The arm movement did loosen it

[aedwynn]

Ok I'm sorry but that High Voltage Power supply is just a dumbfucks way of seeing your HD burn out. That is extremely dangerous because when I tested it this not only burnt the cover but left shock marks on the rims of the HD Internal Disc and was COMPLETELY RUINED. ITS NOT A CAR THAT YOU CAN SHOCK TO LIFE WITH YOUR HUGE ASS BATTERY!!!

[youknowita]

Data recovery software is really a good thing, MiniTool data recovery software is a good choice for you. crash hard drive, it is just a piece of cake.

[123orfil]

i rared buy a new computer than pay 3000 dollars