All my music, lots of movies and hundreds of starcraft vods (all good ones, most are from the recommended vods thread) are gone forever. I hate to start collecting stuffs again. That HDD is only about 1 year old, fuck Maxtor, I'll never buy their HDD again.

cgrinker

United States3824 Posts

June 20 2009 06:07 GMT

I feel for you.

Unless you dropped it. Then that's on you.

errol1001

454 Posts

June 20 2009 06:19 GMT

All companies have hard drives that die... sucks for you though.

Deleted User 37864

780 Posts

June 20 2009 06:25 GMT

Western Digital!!!

Kentor

United States5784 Posts

June 20 2009 07:09 GMT

yeah fuck maxtor. i thought they died or something

ghermination

United States2851 Posts

June 20 2009 07:32 GMT

Thats strange. I've heard lots of complaints about maxtors HDD's, but my external 500gb HDD has lasted me for 2 1/2 years now, still going strong.

Raithed

China7078 Posts

June 20 2009 08:02 GMT

wow that sucks. my HP comp's hdd failed on me but it didnt die, it kept giving me a S.M.A.R.T. thing whenever i start it and ive had it for like.. 3-4 yrs now.

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

June 20 2009 08:02 GMT

Yea, I've got nop problems with maxtor drives. I had a seagate barracuda that died after 2-3 years. It was the circuit board not the mechanical stuff.

PS- If its just the mechanical end, there are ways to get a drive to work temporarily. Google them; some involve putting the drive in rice or something and ziplocking it, then putting it in the freezer. not joking shit works.

besiger

Croatia2452 Posts

June 20 2009 08:06 GMT

Aren't there companies that specialize in data retrieval from busted up hard drives ? Im pretty sure it can be done, but i think the price is kinda high, but if you have some important stuff on it, might be worth it.

EDIT: googled around a bit, and here the price is 250$ minimum, sucks

pangshai

Chinatown5333 Posts

June 20 2009 08:08 GMT

#10

didn't maxtor get bought over by seagate. so maxtor drives are actually use seagate components now.

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

June 20 2009 21:14 GMT

#11

On June 20 2009 17:06 besiger wrote:
Aren't there companies that specialize in data retrieval from busted up hard drives ? Im pretty sure it can be done, but i think the price is kinda high, but if you have some important stuff on it, might be worth it.

EDIT: googled around a bit, and here the price is 250$ minimum, sucks

Do they say how they retrieve the data? I bet they use a modified version of the simple home technique I mentioned.

foeffa

Belgium2115 Posts

June 20 2009 23:12 GMT

#12

I 've had this 4 times before, also with Maxtor drives, for about 1TB total. :| My heart skips a beat every time I hear my disks making weird noises.

LeperKahn

Romania1850 Posts

June 20 2009 23:29 GMT

#13

Hey! My SATA main drive in my computer with all of my music, hundreds of starcraft vods, and my replays died today!

I feel ya man... Check out data recovery. I think I might try it myself. Losing this music would be bad.

Crap... Just read this.

MamiyaOtaru

United States1687 Posts

June 21 2009 02:33 GMT

#14

FYI a lot of the cheap recovery services are bait and switch operations. They'll claim some low cost for recovery, and recovery or your money back. When they get it, if it's something doable through software (undelete or something) they'll take care of it. If you have a head crash or something, they'll tell you it's beyond their capability and they've sent it on to a more advanced outfit (who pays them commision).

I'd say if they are charging under $500, they aren't going to be able to do any more than you can. Clean room and SEMs and stuff costs a lot.

On the cheap: the freezer trick worked for me once, and once it didn't. I don't do anything without RAID 1 anymore.

hixhix

1158 Posts

June 21 2009 03:33 GMT

#15

Logical failure and physical failure are different, my HDD has the click of death sound. Probably the only solution is to ask some professional data recovery company to replace the read/write head, which costs too much.

I usually back up important data every time I buy a new hdd. I never had a hdd failure before (I have 8 HDDs), a few of my HDDs are 5+ years old but in a very good condition. Since I'm hooked to HD movies, all my HDDs are filled up so quickly. This failed HDD is about 1 year old and it stays in the shelf most of the time. Because of all of these, I didnt back up data this time. The data is important but I cant afford for the data recovery service. I just feel all my time and effort to collect stuffs that I like, to organize them properly... are completely wasted

I'll try the freezer trick, never heard of that before :p

GTR

51627 Posts

June 21 2009 04:39 GMT

#16

data recovery people are the worst worst people to go to

most of them just steal shit off your hdd and if you have vital information, steal that too.