Feck, HDD just died.

The classic click of death. Even if your restore the sectors(BIG if) it will just get worse.

Freezing the drive or giving it a decent whack might give you limited time to back up the data.

I know whacking it sounds insane, but believe me it's worked for me more than once to stop the click of death so that I could back up the data. Whacking it while it's powered on and clicking seems to work best. Just don't throw it on the floor.
 
funkzar said:
The classic click of death. Even if your restore the sectors(BIG if) it will just get worse.

Freezing the drive or giving it a decent whack might give you limited time to back up the data.

I know whacking it sounds insane, but believe me it's worked for me more than once to stop the click of death so that I could back up the data. Whacking it while it's powered on and clicking seems to work best. Just don't throw it on the floor.
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:wtf:
 
funkzar said:
The classic click of death. Even if your restore the sectors(BIG if) it will just get worse.

Freezing the drive or giving it a decent whack might give you limited time to back up the data.

I know whacking it sounds insane, but believe me it's worked for me more than once to stop the click of death so that I could back up the data. Whacking it while it's powered on and clicking seems to work best. Just don't throw it on the floor.
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Might as well try a format and then run it over with a steamroller whilst you're at it...
 
seems like a few of us are getting HDD failures now...

my newest HD (which has my C:/ and my movie/game drive on it) just gave me the same error.. Have a nice red mark next to reallocated sectors count and it says health status is bad... It is a Seagate 1Tb drive only has 16940 hours on it.. My older WD and seagate are sitting at 31400 and 27630 hours already..

Guess the next logical HDD to get will be a 2TB HDD to be a bit more future proof seeing that games etc are getting bigger every month..

I copied/made an image of all the data from my bad HDD to an external HDD. Once I install the new HDD, can I just copy the info from the external HDD onto the new HDD and continue as normal, or do i have to install windows fresh on the HDD, along with all my other data?
 
Currently dealing with a rapidly failing 1tb drive at home.. its frustrating trying to get the data off, its maxing out at about 350KB/s transfer rate...

Will be a miracle if I get all the data off before it goes belly up completely.
 
AjAx30 said:
Once I install the new HDD, can I just copy the info from the external HDD onto the new HDD and continue as normal, or do i have to install windows fresh on the HDD, along with all my other data?
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If you clone entire drive sector by sector you don't need to reinstall OS.
 
Done rebuilding two dev PC's at work - both failing hard drives. Installed new hard drives, chucked the old ones.

There's four more - which I suspect will also start to fail soon. Ordered four new hard drives in the mean, can get them prepped etc before disk failure happens. (or so I hope).
 
ToxicBunny said:
Currently dealing with a rapidly failing 1tb drive at home.. its frustrating trying to get the data off, its maxing out at about 350KB/s transfer rate...

Will be a miracle if I get all the data off before it goes belly up completely.
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How are you getting the data off?

I would image the drive with gnuddrescue and then recover from the image. Trying to use any other means is just gonna stress things and probably hasten it's death.
 
ponder said:
How are you getting the data off?

I would image the drive with gnuddrescue and then recover from the image. Trying to use any other means is just gonna stress things and probably hasten it's death.
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Its not really mission critical data, music and movies and such... so if it bombs out its fine...
I don't really want to image the drive tbh.. it will just be one more thing I forget about and just waste space with... I'm trying to clean up the digital mess that is my storage system.
 
ToxicBunny said:
I'm trying to clean up the digital mess that is my storage system.
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I've been trying to do that for the last 10 years and it's not happening :D

The failed drive that started this thread was a full 500GB, at first I felt kinda bad about the contents but that only lasted a day, I don't miss the data. So maybe I should just wipe all my other drives and start from scratch as that would probably be the easiest thing to do...
 
Bwahaha, just plugged the faulty old WD into a usb adapter and lo and behold it's working now :D

For how long I don't know so many I should have a look and see if there's anything I really want.
 
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