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Hard Drive cooked.
TankHammer
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Recently I was fiddling with my computer, re-organizing the wires and whatnot and hooking it up to a newer, more-suited surge protector. In the process I decided to remove one of the extra hard drives from the machine, as I wasn't using it and figured it would be better off without the added heat and power-draw.
In the process I unhooked my 300 gig secondary hard drive (a Segate internal drive I use to store my design work, picture and video files). Upon reconnecting it I failed to realize (since I was working without an adequate light source) that I had bent in one of the little pins on the drive. I guess the electricity shorted the hardware and now it's going to be somewhere around $2000-$3000 or probably more to get my important files back. I realize how retarded I am for not having a backup drive but up until this point I never considered it that immediate a need to drop the cash on it.
I don't think there's much advice that can be given in this situation, so my advice to you is to back up your data if you aren't already. I think I'm going to have to find the money for this somewhere, and I guess I won't be getting a car like I wanted to with the cash my new job has netted.
This whole thing is really unfortunate and I felt like I had to vent it now before cry to someone in the office.
In the process I unhooked my 300 gig secondary hard drive (a Segate internal drive I use to store my design work, picture and video files). Upon reconnecting it I failed to realize (since I was working without an adequate light source) that I had bent in one of the little pins on the drive. I guess the electricity shorted the hardware and now it's going to be somewhere around $2000-$3000 or probably more to get my important files back. I realize how retarded I am for not having a backup drive but up until this point I never considered it that immediate a need to drop the cash on it.
I don't think there's much advice that can be given in this situation, so my advice to you is to back up your data if you aren't already. I think I'm going to have to find the money for this somewhere, and I guess I won't be getting a car like I wanted to with the cash my new job has netted.
This whole thing is really unfortunate and I felt like I had to vent it now before cry to someone in the office.
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JoeJRicc
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Like I said, I'm no expert but I am pretty certain that I've read about people doing this thing. If you do not feel up to doing it yourself, I do not think a recovery business will charge as much as 2000-3000 for the job, especially if you can provide the parts yourself.
Anyway, might be worth your time doing some searches for this problem. Hope it works out, good luck...
Edit:
Yup, found what I had in mind. Check this out:
http://www.dansdata.com/io026.htm
What you want is a bit down on the page. Apparently you need a controller board from an identical drive, but apart from that a torx driver should be enough for the job... maybe you will get that car after all!
I'll try to explain more clearly. I had the drive plugged in improperly. The electrical current traveled along the pin in a bad way (also the data ribbon whatever it's called fell apart when I removed it for some reason).
I bent the pin back to where it was supposed to go, got a new ribbon and hooked it up. The drive runs, but the computer can't even detect it. I have turned it into a tech rescue place on Saturday. They called me today and told me they can't recover the data but they can send it to a lab with a clean room that will recover the data.
Doing a basic diagnostic will cost roughly $300 from this place and all that gets me is a list of things they can save from the drive. The actual data recovery varies but I got the impression from the numbers he threw at me that we're talking into the thousands of dollars, more than my computer cost me.
The whole drive is about 80gigs full I figure and only 20-30gb is really necessary information. If anyone has gone through this before (I know Mike and Jerry's HD caught fire once and they had to go through this process at high expense) and can give me an idea as to what it may cost before I drop $300 to have them tell me I'm too poor to afford it I would greatly appreciate.
ALSO: Thanks Lod, I will check that out but not until I have ruled out the more-professional option. If I drop another $200 on another identical HD and then the problem isn't even fixable that way it only makes it worse. I will ask around about it though, so thank you for providing this alternate option.
At night, the ice weasels come."
Yes, the prices are to transfer to a new enclosure.