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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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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   1 Apr 2015 00:21 
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Have you removed the battery to be safe?
 
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   1 Apr 2015 00:31 
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Came home to my biannual can' t boot grubs hosed and maybe so's the partition table. After the usual ministrations all came up good. Then I nearly drenched the keyboard attempting to pour an ice-choked can of IPA into an ill-judged glass. This ain't even Fri 13th. On the good side I subsequently beat the gangsters in the Dead Island supermarket & picked up an M16-alike for my troubles.

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 From:  Mizzy   1 Apr 2015 06:59 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      56 of 77 
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It does take a long time, that's the dynastat process trying to extract some sensible data from each sector, I had one drive take 14 hours, but I did get the data back though,
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   1 Apr 2015 07:36 
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I tried but it kept slapping my hands away telling me it didn't want to be turned off.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   1 Apr 2015 08:15 
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At this rate its going to take a few of years. It's still only at 0.1%. Hopefully it'll get past a bad bit and speed up, we will see. I'll be amazed if it can recover something.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   1 Apr 2015 17:37 
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      59 of 77 
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Yes I did take the battery out but no wine on anything critical. Left the keyboard to dry til now and when I plug it in the laptop powers on and off. Either it's still wet or it's broken.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   1 Apr 2015 18:22 
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SpinRite is taking AAAAAGES. I'm gonna try and image the drive instead. If I do do I need anothrr drive as big as this one or only as big as the used space on it?

Yes, looks like I do to try Dd_rescue.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   1 Apr 2015 19:37 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      61 of 77 
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The removing the battery is to ensure there's no power so nothing can short - should really do it ASAP. (i.e. quickly save any files then forcibly shut it down.

How are you drying it out? I'm sure it was here that I got the bowl of rice tip from - helps to absorb moisture. Though that's more for phones possibly... a laptop would need a large enough bowl/tray and enough rice.

 
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   1 Apr 2015 20:06 
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It was only the keyboard I washed. Luckily it contained the wine and stopped it getting to anything underneath. I took it out and washed it under the tap.

Dried it on a paper towel over night and I've since put it on the radiator for a bit. Might try rice if it doesn't start working.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   1 Apr 2015 20:11 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      63 of 77 
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What sort of keyboard does it have that you can take it out without a liquid getting anywhere else? Is it one of those detachable transformer ones, or something else?

Also, can you try the machine without the keyboard attached, or does it fail with a press F1 error? :)

 
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   1 Apr 2015 20:35 
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This one.

I have no way of booting without the keyboard attached because the power button is on the keyboard. I did, however, boot the laptop with another keyboard attached, remove the laptop keyboard and it worked.

And it was only q small amount of wine luckily.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   1 Apr 2015 21:19 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      65 of 77 
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Heh, well hopefully it's just still drying out.
 
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   1 Apr 2015 22:24 
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Just tried it and managed to get Windows to boot. None of the keys worked.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   3 Apr 2015 10:02 
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Dd_rescue has so far imaged ~25% of the drive. 13MB from the start, 40GB after skipping the first 4GB and 20GB from the end.

It was taken ages trying to retrieve the bad bits but I can skip sections of the drive to find good bits. Fingers crossed I'll get some bits back at least.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   3 Apr 2015 10:17 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      68 of 77 
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55GB now. Not sure what to do with the image to recover boys yet.

First time I ran it it was copying the drive really quickly. It wasn't until the drive I was creating the image on ran out of space that I realised I was copying my SSD to my other HDD. Got mixed up with SDA and SDB.
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 From:  koswix   3 Apr 2015 11:02 
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LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL :'D

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   3 Apr 2015 13:13 
 To:  koswix      70 of 77 
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I'm not used to Linux :(

I think it's actually working :O Created an image skipping some bad areas. Might be some other good bits in between but surprisingly little was unrecoverable.

I booted into Windows, mounted the drive with... something, and currently using GetDataBack on it.
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