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Need some help in fixing a hard drive.

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by thomkth

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Dose any one know how to fix a hard drive.

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by tbradley

Nothing like posting a wide open question.
Is is a physical problem. Drive won't start or spin up? If this is the case, I've only seen two options that have worked.
1. Remove the drive, and put it in your freezer for 2 hours, install back in CPU, boot up and backup your files quick.
2. Remove the drive, drop clean side down on hard floor *clean side = no electronics, from about 2 feet up. Install and if it boots, backup files quick.

If it is just an appearance of failure, fat table errors, etc, it would be helpful to post the symptoms. IE, scandisk insists on running over and over, machine hangs, then continues to boot, etc.

Quite often a faulty install or a virus create symptoms that resemble hardware failures.

by rzan

If you want help, it would be nice to provide more information about the problem. It's like saying my car is broken, which doesn't provide any information to the mechanic, and since we can't physically examine your drive, you have to provide us with feedback.

by thomkth

When ever I start the computer up the hard drive starts to boot up and then starts making a loud noise then it says fixed disk I tried to fix it do you know what could be wrong with it.

by tbradley

does it kinda sound like a thunk, sproing, thunk, thunk.... the just goes dead....

if so, it's the spindle, and the thing is toast. sorry

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