Re: Hard Drive Recovery

2012-11-13 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
is bad enough you can feel it when holding the drive. I did some reading on line, and its beyond my skillset. Does anyone know if affordable drive recovery? The data on this disk is not worth thousands, but may be worth 100s. Thanks in advance, Eric

Re: Hard Drive Recovery

2012-11-13 Thread Stephen
enough you can feel it when holding the drive. I did some reading on line, and its beyond my skillset. Does anyone know if affordable drive recovery? The data on this disk is not worth thousands, but may be worth 100s. Thanks in advance, Eric

Re: Hard Drive Recovery

2012-11-13 Thread Michael Havens
can feel it when holding the drive. I did some reading on line, and its beyond my skillset. Does anyone know if affordable drive recovery? The data on this disk is not worth thousands, but may be worth 100s. Thanks in advance, Eric --**- PLUG

Re: Hard Drive Recovery

2012-11-13 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
some reading on line, and its beyond my skillset. Does anyone know if affordable drive recovery? The data on this disk is not worth thousands, but may be worth 100s. Thanks in advance, Eric --**- PLUG-discuss mailing list - plug-disc...@lists.plug

Re: Hard Drive Recovery

2012-11-13 Thread Eric Oyen
there are several such firms. last time I checked, they wanted an average of slightly more than $1,000 for basic drive recovery. Is that drive still under warrantee? If so, then WD should be able to help. if not, I may have to dig into my old history files and dig up the names of 3 differing

Re: Hard Drive Recovery

2012-11-13 Thread Eric Cope
: there are several such firms. last time I checked, they wanted an average of slightly more than $1,000 for basic drive recovery. Is that drive still under warrantee? If so, then WD should be able to help. if not, I may have to dig into my old history files and dig up the names of 3 differing firms that gave

Hard Drive Recovery

2012-11-12 Thread Eric Cope
Hi all, I have a Western Digital 2.5 hard drive that spins up, but makes a terrible clicking sound at approximately 1Hz. The clicking is bad enough you can feel it when holding the drive. I did some reading on line, and its beyond my skillset. Does anyone know if affordable drive recovery

Re: drive recovery

2008-05-01 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 17:24 -0700, Technomage Hawke wrote: Kevin (and others of the list) thanks for the suggestions. I've been told that this is very likely a hard disk HEAD crash, which would make any data on the drive nearly impossible to recover without spending $$$ to get at it (lowest

Re: drive recovery

2008-05-01 Thread Michael Sammartano
I concur! I can do software recovery when physical components work sporadically for a few hundred dollars. When they are real bad, and will not work properly at all, I have sent them out for recovery to a company in California and the charges in are the thousands. The highest I have had to date

drive recovery

2008-04-30 Thread Technomage Hawke
ok guys, I am in immediate need of some help here. I just had a western digital WD500ks fail on me. it started with some filesystem errors about 3 hours ago and after I restarted the machine, it failed to be detected in BIOS and makes a loud clack on startup (this indicates a possible electronics

Re: drive recovery

2008-04-30 Thread Kevin Faulkner
(this indicates a possible electronics package failure). what I need to do is this: I need to get my data off the drive and onto a backup. does anyone happen to have a spare electronics package laying around What do you mean by electronics package?? I hope your not just planning on

Re: drive recovery

2008-04-30 Thread Technomage Hawke
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Kevin Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (this indicates a possible electronics package failure). what I need to do is this: I need to get my data off the drive and onto a backup. does anyone happen to have a spare electronics package laying around

Re: drive recovery

2008-04-30 Thread Charles Jones
Technomage Hawke wrote: ok guys, I am in immediate need of some help here. I just had a western digital WD500ks fail on me. it started with some filesystem errors about 3 hours ago and after I restarted the machine, it failed to be detected in BIOS and makes a loud clack on startup (this

Re: drive recovery

2008-04-30 Thread Technomage Hawke
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Technomage Hawke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Kevin Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (this indicates a possible electronics package failure). what I need to do is this: I need to get my data off the drive and onto a

Re: drive recovery

2008-04-30 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 13:48 -0700, Charles Jones wrote: Technomage Hawke wrote: ok guys, I am in immediate need of some help here. I just had a western digital WD500ks fail on me. it started with some filesystem errors about 3 hours ago and after I restarted the machine, it failed to

Re: drive recovery

2008-04-30 Thread Technomage Hawke
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 13:48 -0700, Charles Jones wrote: Technomage Hawke wrote: ok guys, I am in immediate need of some help here. I just had a western digital WD500ks fail on me. it started with some

Re: drive recovery

2008-04-30 Thread Kevin Faulkner
does anyone happen to have a spare electronics package laying around What do you mean by electronics package?? I hope your not just planning on swapping the PCB (Printed Circuit Board or Primary Controller Board, it varies). If you swap with the wrong one you

Re: drive recovery

2008-04-30 Thread Technomage Hawke
Kevin (and others of the list) thanks for the suggestions. I've been told that this is very likely a hard disk HEAD crash, which would make any data on the drive nearly impossible to recover without spending $$$ to get at it (lowest price I found so far was $499.00 and it would take a week). I can