I pulled an old WD 40 gig caviar off another computer and plugged it into the usb adapter to another computer. It would not spin up at all and the jumpers are set to mastor. I wouldn't make a sound at all so i found a matching drive on egay and swapped them. Then it would start to spin up then the clicking started. I read and tried everything from freezing it to puting it the oven to unlock the heads with no luck so far. Even tried jarring it while unplgged and nothinging. From all i have read those three things worked sometimes and sometimes not.
Has anyone tried a different method and it worked? I know you can't open it up or it'sgone for sure even with one micron of dust getting in and not willing to pay a huge fee to a lab that can't even guarantee they can get it all. Another drive i'm trying to rescue will spin up but it's invisible. So i took it to a guy and he said he could read .jpg on it and .avi but said it would take about 14 hrs to recover it. So i looked at his screen and he was using easy recovery. I don't know what he used before that to make the drive even visible at first. The second drive has no clicking at all. Anyone had that happend and able to find the drive? I tried partition magic and it didn't show up there either.
Would hate to lose data on two drives that is really old and don't even know whats on them really cept for some old programs which can be replaced but not the pictures.
Dumb me didn't back them up long time ago so it's my fault really.
But the one that spins up must have some hope i think.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Has anyone tried a different method and it worked? I know you can't open it up or it'sgone for sure even with one micron of dust getting in and not willing to pay a huge fee to a lab that can't even guarantee they can get it all. Another drive i'm trying to rescue will spin up but it's invisible. So i took it to a guy and he said he could read .jpg on it and .avi but said it would take about 14 hrs to recover it. So i looked at his screen and he was using easy recovery. I don't know what he used before that to make the drive even visible at first. The second drive has no clicking at all. Anyone had that happend and able to find the drive? I tried partition magic and it didn't show up there either.
Would hate to lose data on two drives that is really old and don't even know whats on them really cept for some old programs which can be replaced but not the pictures.
Dumb me didn't back them up long time ago so it's my fault really.
But the one that spins up must have some hope i think.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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