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Knock-Knock. Who's there? Hard drive failure.
oniian
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I think my hard drive is dying and was hoping to get some advice as to the best way to get the data off the hard drive before the inevitable occurs.
So I went home for lunch yesterday and started up my computer. But nothing was listed when it got to the part of the boot sequence where the hard drive is recognized. So I rebooted and tried again with then the same results. I rebooted one last time and opened up the case and wiggled the SATA cable. That time it booted but I heard a knocking noise in the hard drive similar to a clock ticking in rhythm and tone.
My thoughts are I can either buy another internal hard drive to replace the current one (at least temporarily) and move the data to it. Or I could buy an External and use it for storage after I get the data off and either repair or replace the hard drive. But what I mainly curious as to what method of data migration people would use in this situation.
The hard drive that is going bad (as far as I know) is 500gb Seagate that came with a 3 year warranty (this is the second year of use) with 120g - 140g of data on it. Most of the data is one the Ubuntu partition but there maybe somethings I want to keep from the XP side.
So I went home for lunch yesterday and started up my computer. But nothing was listed when it got to the part of the boot sequence where the hard drive is recognized. So I rebooted and tried again with then the same results. I rebooted one last time and opened up the case and wiggled the SATA cable. That time it booted but I heard a knocking noise in the hard drive similar to a clock ticking in rhythm and tone.
My thoughts are I can either buy another internal hard drive to replace the current one (at least temporarily) and move the data to it. Or I could buy an External and use it for storage after I get the data off and either repair or replace the hard drive. But what I mainly curious as to what method of data migration people would use in this situation.
The hard drive that is going bad (as far as I know) is 500gb Seagate that came with a 3 year warranty (this is the second year of use) with 120g - 140g of data on it. Most of the data is one the Ubuntu partition but there maybe somethings I want to keep from the XP side.
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Edit: wait... so I just reread your post. You did get it to boot? Are you sure the ticking noise wasn't just normal seek noise? If you're able to access the partition at all, I'd advise you to backup whatever you can ASAP. Network, DVDs, wherever.
Well that was yesterday, afraid I missed the boat on that one. But I am fairly confident that I'll be able get it going again. I'll even try the technique of sticking it in the freezer if need be.
I don't think that it is that ticking/death toll. The knocking noise was evenly spaced at rhythm of every second. If I recall correctly, it occurred 4 or 5 times and then did not occur for the twenty minutes in which I had the computer on.
I assuming making image backups won't be that great of an idea due to corruption and bad data?
The ticking rhythm is definitely a sign of failure, its just a matter of time until it becomes unusable. My portable 100gb usb drive just took a dive and it started with the clicking. It still worked but gradually got worse, then started getting bad sectors. I tried a low lvl format but it only helped for a few days. It actually still functions but with the integrity of the drive so bad, I dont want to put anything on it.