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Wierd Harddrive problem?
LockedI have a HDD (20gig fugitsu two and a half years old) that has stopped being recognized by the bios and I would like to retrieve some data off it.
Symptoms: From the moment i switch on the pc it makes about 20 clunking noises then stops but keeps spinning without any noise apart from the normal spinning sound for about 20 minutes then it starts over again, 20 clunks or so then spins quietly for another 20 minutes ???
Attempted:
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* Setting bios manually.
* changing position master-slave.
* tried slapping.
* changed PCB from an identical working drive.
* tried on another pc – both pc have onboard controllers.
* tried freezing…but nothing just goes through its routine as I stated above.
Actually I managed to get it recognized once by the bios when I froze it, although it gave me an erratic name well it was just one or two letters in the description of the drive name was out (binary letters), I then booted into winows2000 and through the Disk Management Console it identified all three partitions that I had on the drive before it broke, but didn’t give me any drive letters. I believe it must of been some due from the freezer that i found on the pcb (i’ll never do that again).
Can anyone identify this timed clunking noise, or has anyone had a similar problem, or maybe someone can recommend some sort of low-level software tool to help recognition, just want enough time to get the data off the drive then will throw away. Anything!
please help…