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 From:  koswix   30 Mar 2015 22:36 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      34 of 77 
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Freezer? 

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   30 Mar 2015 22:41 
 To:  koswix      35 of 77 
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Think I might try that. It worked once years ago.

I booted the laptop from a Linux USB drive and it can mount the partition as read-only but doesn't show any contents.
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 From:  koswix   30 Mar 2015 22:50 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      36 of 77 
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Never tried it, but sounds like it's dead anyway so no harm in giving it a shot. 

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   30 Mar 2015 23:07 
 To:  koswix      37 of 77 
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I'm pretty sure it did work. Had a HDD that couldn't be read in Windows, froze it and  when I took it out of the freezer it worked for a little while, long enough to get some data off.

It does look like the drive is dead unfortunately. Nothing backed up from it, years of stuff on there :S Worth a shot at putting it in the freezer.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 00:42 
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Wonderful. I can access the recovery partition fine but the rest just doesn't seem to work :(
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 06:35 
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Freezer didn't help. Same thing this morning. Maybe it wasn't in there long enough. More likely it's DEAD.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   31 Mar 2015 07:53 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      40 of 77 
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But the recovery partition still works?

dd the whole device to an image.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 07:59 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      41 of 77 
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Seems to. I could access the files in the recovery partition from Linux. The other partition showed the size and space used but couldn't shoe any contents.

Worth a try making an image. I'll try and find a HDD large enough when I get home and see if it will work.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   31 Mar 2015 08:18 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      42 of 77 
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Data could well be in tact just the FAT is damaged (if it still works like that for NTFS).
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 08:40 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      43 of 77 
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I think if that's all it was then GetDataBack would have done something. The drive is making funny noises too which definitely isn't a good sign.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   31 Mar 2015 10:14 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      44 of 77 
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Sounds like physical damage to actuator(s) and/or platter(s).

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 12:14 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      45 of 77 
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Definitely looks (and sounds) that way. I don't think there's much I can do with it :(
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   31 Mar 2015 16:53 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      46 of 77 
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Can you run a mfg diagnostic on it, or get smart info?

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 From:  Mizzy   31 Mar 2015 17:54 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      47 of 77 
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Try spinrite at grc.com also available by Jim, I've had some success rescuing disks even encrypted ones.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 18:03 
 To:  Mizzy      48 of 77 
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Looks interesting. Worth a try. Thanks.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 18:04 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      49 of 77 
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It's a Hitachi drive. Not sure if their fitness test program is going to be much help.
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 From:  graphitone    31 Mar 2015 19:23 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      50 of 77 
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Maybe try Hitachi's seatools, it worked for us once when recovering a drive, but that wasn't hardware related. :/


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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   31 Mar 2015 20:26 
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FWIW I had two desktop hdds (apparently) fail in that my pc was rendered unbootable with them (it wouldn't even post), and they made loud clicking noises.

However after I stuck them in usb enclosures they are completely accessible, including all ntfs and linux partitions, and no data was lost. Also, no clicking.

One was a Seagate and the other WD.

I still have them on tap, as backups of all the 'dispensible' stuff I couldn't be bothered to copy over to the replacement. TBH I think my motherboard could have been the culprit moreso than the actual drives. The most recent hdd has been running a bit longer than the other two did, without the issue manifesting so far.

I'm creeping myself out even typing this.  :-@

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 21:15 
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SpinRite is going really slowly. Been running a couple of hours now and only read about 16MB of 240GB. Gonna take a while. I wonder if it will help though.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   1 Apr 2015 00:13 
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Fucking /WONDERFUL/!!! :@ I spilled wine over my laptop's keyboard and screen! Luckily only a little bit got between the display and case. Washed the keyboard, gonna give it a bit of time to dry out before using it.
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