[Novalug] Re: Hard Drive Data Recovery (Greg Faust-

[George Bell]

Have you given the good ole' low-tech "good whack" method a try?   This 
was once considered a respectable way to get some hardware or other 
going again.   Of course, this involves the "art" of applying just the 
right force to achieve the desired effect :)

Applying such a procedure to a device with inherently tight tolerances 
seems all but absurd, but at this point it looks like you've got 
nothing(worth that much) to lose.

c.f.  Scott Mueller compares the head and the platter to paraphrase: 
skyscrapers floating on a cushion of air only 5 mm thick while 
travelling at a speed of 17.8 million miles per hour or about 5 thousand 
mph. 

But who knows, you might get lucky....

George


Greg Faust wrote:
>
>     Thanks for all the responses.  Unfortunately the freezer trick
>     didn't work.  I left the drive in the freezer overnight and this
>     morning it's still clicking.  I don't think the head is stuck
>     because when the drive clicks you can feel a vibration that I
>     imagine is the momentum of the head stack starting and stopping. 
>     Also, I don't think rsync to a separate partition would have saved
>     me because in this case the drive is a total loss and won't even
>     show up in bios.  So for this particular type of failure, an rsync
>     to a separate partition would not help.  Although, if I could get
>     the drive so show up a second copy of my data may or may not come
>     in handy depending on if the platter has surface damage where my
>     data is located.  I have used OnTrak data recovery in Reston a
>     bunch of time for desktop machines at work and they have always
>     recovered the data, but I don't think my data is
>     worth $1200-$1700, so I think I'll take my chances with the cheap
>     data recovery and see how it goes. 
>
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