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  1. magus7000

    Seagate 200gb failure. Ive tried everything....

    yes actually it does for a lonnnng time it was making loud humming noises, but i didnt know it was the hard drive, i thought it was a bad fan and then one day the really loud noises stopped... and so did the hard drive but when i first pulled it out of the freezer and hooked it up, it sounded...
  2. magus7000

    Seagate 200gb failure. Ive tried everything....

    Ok... so i bought an external enclosure and hooked it up... the computer recognized it and installed it.. under the device manager, i could see the busted hard drive, but it was not assigned a drive letter and i couldnt see it in My Computer I tried running some diagnostic programs...
  3. magus7000

    Seagate 200gb failure. Ive tried everything....

    i bought an external enclosure... if it doesnt work im goin to the last resort... freezing.. ive been reading up on it here http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html any advice on the freezing trick?
  4. magus7000

    Seagate 200gb failure. Ive tried everything....

    also, is it safer, or more efficient to image the drive first, rather than try to transfer the data? (that is, of course, if i can access the drive)
  5. magus7000

    Seagate 200gb failure. Ive tried everything....

    i just bought an external 320gb for $100... i was planning on doing this anyways... i was just a week too late.... ive tried using GetDataBack from runtime.org, but whenever i try to start windows with the bad slave attached, it goes so insanely slow that it appears to freeze... i cant get to...
  6. magus7000

    Seagate 200gb failure. Ive tried everything....

    i am currently running my pc just fine with the bad slave hard drive disconnected i was actually thinking about getting an enclosure just to see... as well as a new ribbon just to check can you recommend a data recovery company? i really dont wanna pay a lot, but i guess if i have to i will
  7. magus7000

    Seagate 200gb failure. Ive tried everything....

    Hi all. I'm a bit of a novice with this stuff, but hopefully some of you can help. I have a Seagate 200gb IDE hard drive. It is a slave drive on my 3 year old Song Vaio PC with windows XP SP1. Its only about 1 1/2 years old. Well it has been making noises for many months, but i thought...

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