Solve : Hard drive failure! HELP!?

1.	Solve : Hard drive failure! HELP!?
Answer» one of my hard drives has a physical problem! there is beeping sounds coming from it! When i try to start my computer with the hard disk with the problem in (and have it connected as slave, and the working one as master) the bios then only finds the other one , and then i cant find it at all in windows! When i have the hard disk with the problem (connected as master) then the bios finds them both , but when i try to start it doesnt ENTER windows, it EITHER comes up : INSERT BOOT DISK , or it just restarts! All i want to do is to recover the files! Can someone please help me!! i relly want help! i am using windows xp and the hard DRIVE is a maxtor sabre.You'll need to get something like "Recover My Files" or "Get Data Back" and take the bad hard drive, put it in as a secondary hard drive in a working PC, or get an IDE to USB adapter and plug it in that way. Then run the recovery software on the drive. If you have important files on the drive I recommend having a professional do it.Quote from: TheEmperor on February 11, 2008, 08:14:32 AM You'll need to get something like "Recover My Files" or "Get Data Back" and take the bad hard drive, put it in as a secondary hard drive in a working PC, or get an IDE to USB adapter and plug it in that way. Then run the recovery software on the drive. If you have important files on the drive I recommend having a professional do it. Thanks for writing. will that work even if when i have the bad hard drive connected to the computer as secondary hard drive and when it starts up it says secondary hard drive failure or doesnt find it at all?? Is there a chance it will find the hard drive if i use a IDE to USB adapter? Thanks for writing.There is a very SMALL chance. If the drive isn't spinning up then you are out of luck. If it spins up but windows can't see it you might still be able to recover some data from it with that software.Quote from: TheEmperor on February 21, 2008, 09:49:38 AM There is a very small chance. If the drive isn't spinning up then you are out of luck. If it spins up but windows can't see it you might still be able to recover some data from it with that software. I had a HDD failure once and was able to recover all my data by freezing the HDD. This gave me about 30 mins. in order to recover my data. I had to freeze it 3 times but I was able to do a complete recovery.Quote from: SuperDave on February 21, 2008, 10:21:15 AM Quote from: TheEmperor on February 21, 2008, 09:49:38 AM There is a very small chance. If the drive isn't spinning up then you are out of luck. If it spins up but windows can't see it you might still be able to recover some data from it with that software. I had a HDD failure once and was able to recover all my data by freezing the HDD. This gave me about 30 mins. in order to recover my data. I had to freeze it 3 times but I was able to do a complete recovery. what do you mean with freezing the hard drive??Hard drives do not beep... Remove the drive from the machine and hook it up to a known working machine (preferably with a burner) as a slave drive and copy/burn the Data you need. Try this before the FREEZER method as we don't know if it's the drive that's failing or another component in your machine...

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one of my hard drives has a physical problem! there is beeping sounds coming from it!
When i try to start my computer with the hard disk with the problem in (and have it connected as slave, and the working one as master) the bios then only finds the other one , and then i cant find it at all in windows! When i have the hard disk with the problem (connected as master) then the bios finds them both , but when i try to start it doesnt ENTER windows, it EITHER comes up : INSERT BOOT DISK , or it just restarts!
All i want to do is to recover the files!

Can someone please help me!! i relly want help!
i am using windows xp and the hard DRIVE is a maxtor sabre.You'll need to get something like "Recover My Files" or "Get Data Back" and take the bad hard drive, put it in as a secondary hard drive in a working PC, or get an IDE to USB adapter and plug it in that way. Then run the recovery software on the drive. If you have important files on the drive I recommend having a professional do it.Quote from: TheEmperor on February 11, 2008, 08:14:32 AM

You'll need to get something like "Recover My Files" or "Get Data Back" and take the bad hard drive, put it in as a secondary hard drive in a working PC, or get an IDE to USB adapter and plug it in that way. Then run the recovery software on the drive. If you have important files on the drive I recommend having a professional do it.

Thanks for writing.
will that work even if when i have the bad hard drive connected to the computer as secondary hard drive and when it starts up it says secondary hard drive failure or doesnt find it at all?? Is there a chance it will find the hard drive if i use a IDE to USB adapter?

Thanks for writing.There is a very SMALL chance. If the drive isn't spinning up then you are out of luck. If it spins up but windows can't see it you might still be able to recover some data from it with that software.Quote from: TheEmperor on February 21, 2008, 09:49:38 AM

There is a very small chance. If the drive isn't spinning up then you are out of luck. If it spins up but windows can't see it you might still be able to recover some data from it with that software.

I had a HDD failure once and was able to recover all my data by freezing the HDD. This gave me about 30 mins. in order to recover my data. I had to freeze it 3 times but I was able to do a complete recovery.Quote from: SuperDave on February 21, 2008, 10:21:15 AM

Quote from: TheEmperor on February 21, 2008, 09:49:38 AM
There is a very small chance. If the drive isn't spinning up then you are out of luck. If it spins up but windows can't see it you might still be able to recover some data from it with that software.
I had a HDD failure once and was able to recover all my data by freezing the HDD. This gave me about 30 mins. in order to recover my data. I had to freeze it 3 times but I was able to do a complete recovery.

what do you mean with freezing the hard drive??Hard drives do not beep...
Remove the drive from the machine and hook it up to a known working machine (preferably with a burner) as a slave drive and copy/burn the Data you need.
Try this before the FREEZER method as we don't know if it's the drive that's failing or another component in your machine...

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