Comments on: Failing hard drive sounds http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jeremiah3123 http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/comment-page-1/#comment-109534 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:45:25 +0000 http://hackadaycom.wordpress.com/?p=5932#comment-109534 Actually you can tell if there’s something wrong with your hdd if you hear any sount at all – besides his usual morming of course :D

just my 2 cents

]]> By: English to Italian translation http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/comment-page-1/#comment-97254 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:30:27 +0000 http://hackadaycom.wordpress.com/?p=5932#comment-97254 Hi,

I have an Italian friend who produces bands that are into industrial music and will see whether he is interested in combining these sounds to make a track. I must admit that this article has started to make me feel a bit paranoid. It’s not he PC I’m worried about that will need relpacing in due course, it’s all the software that I will have to buy again.

Cheers – Mike.

]]> By: récupération de données http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/comment-page-1/#comment-70862 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:18:49 +0000 http://hackadaycom.wordpress.com/?p=5932#comment-70862 I am having some trouble with my current hard disk. Unfortunately I cannot afford recovery costs. It is a 750GB SATA disk. USB is not even seeing the drive. I do not have any other SATA drives therefore I was thinking of getting a SATA PCI card and putting the drive in one of my desktops to run SpinRite on. Is this the cost effective way or am I kidding myself and I should jus bite the bullet and send it off?
récupération de données

]]> By: m@! http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/comment-page-1/#comment-51644 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:33:58 +0000 http://hackadaycom.wordpress.com/?p=5932#comment-51644 @ vegiemaster. that’s not the way most data recovery centers work. the fees are typically around that range due to shipping costs and the hour or two it takes to connect a drive, see if it ids, and if not then open it up and check for surface rings. i can guarantee that *my* company at least will not dedicate anymore time to your drive unless we have signed paperwork and credit card information to proceed. there are too many drives on the queue to complete every recovery with out a customer’s go-ahead. also, they typically don’t “fix” a drive but instead put it on a crutch for the time-being. so, if you were able to do what you described then the problem was most-likely something that could have been solved before sending it out in the first place.

]]> By: Wwhat http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/comment-page-1/#comment-51285 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:41:28 +0000 http://hackadaycom.wordpress.com/?p=5932#comment-51285 True on aj’s remarks, often external 3.5″ HD’s get shipped with rather dodgy powersupplies that can ruin data while the actual device is OK.
That’s why you should not go too far in trying to save cash on buying one, or on buying a case for an existing HD, there’s just a minimum amount of money needed for a working powersupply and a HD-case.

]]> By: GabeMac http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/comment-page-1/#comment-51249 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:58:53 +0000 http://hackadaycom.wordpress.com/?p=5932#comment-51249 Thanks for this Hack-a-day. I can’t wait for someone to start to mash this up with a brittany spears album. LOL!!! BTW I used you as a reference for an item on my show today. Thanks for posting.

Here is the episode:
http://dailybuzz.mobuzz.tv/shows/crashing_drives_with_flypaper

Cheers!!!
Gabemac

]]> By: kyle007 http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/comment-page-1/#comment-51138 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:21:29 +0000 http://hackadaycom.wordpress.com/?p=5932#comment-51138 I once got a high pitch squeal and had to rma to the drive back hp… thier support has gotten better.. I used to lie to them when they made me “test” the hard ware to prove there really was a problem… recently I delt with them and they actually impressed me… hmmmm.. whats going on here? Radiohead “Big Ideas: Don’t get any” -cheers- video anyone??

]]> By: AJ http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/comment-page-1/#comment-51115 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:23:47 +0000 http://hackadaycom.wordpress.com/?p=5932#comment-51115 I have noted that some external hard drives struggle when their power supply units have a problem (voltages fade?). Typically they take longer to fire up and make unusual noises. It’s worth trying a replacement – but check voltage and polarity, this has ‘saved’ my aging Freecom from what seemed to be disk failure. .

]]> By: Vegiemaster http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/comment-page-1/#comment-51111 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:27:02 +0000 http://hackadaycom.wordpress.com/?p=5932#comment-51111 @syale

In my experience, these data recovery centers have you send your drive in for them to inspect first to see if they can recover the data. The charge is generally around $100. If they say that they can recover it, but want you to pay the full amount of $(large sum), just tell them you can’t afford it and ask them to send it back.

Chances are they already fixed the drive, but deleted the file table. You can then use a utility like testdisk to restore the deleted file table and access all your files again. I’ve recovered the data from two dead drives this way.

]]> By: dand http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/comment-page-1/#comment-51076 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:26:34 +0000 http://hackadaycom.wordpress.com/?p=5932#comment-51076 All right! This should keep me in ringtones for weeks.

]]> By: ross http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/comment-page-1/#comment-51061 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:48:59 +0000 http://hackadaycom.wordpress.com/?p=5932#comment-51061 wow, i can’t wait for that techno track! they could call it “requiem for a hard drive”.

anyway I’m going to bookmark this one just in case my 900gb hard drive fails for no apparent reason.

]]> By: walt http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/comment-page-1/#comment-51052 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:49:47 +0000 http://hackadaycom.wordpress.com/?p=5932#comment-51052 datacent.alepar.ru/wd_loud_clicking.mp3
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datacent.alepar.ru/maxtor_calypso_constant_clicking.mp3
datacent.alepar.ru/maxtor_160gb_steady_knocking.mp3
datacent.alepar.ru/maxtor_melody.mp3
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]]> By: ultrahacker2000 http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/comment-page-1/#comment-51036 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:35:06 +0000 http://hackadaycom.wordpress.com/?p=5932#comment-51036 too shitty audio quality to make something out of =( a shame fo real

]]> By: syale http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/comment-page-1/#comment-51031 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:10:13 +0000 http://hackadaycom.wordpress.com/?p=5932#comment-51031 @mike
Thanks for the tip about spinrite! The direction I am going to install the disk in my desktop is still a valid one though I think. The disk is making a small bleep sound followed by a dropping click sound about every 3 seconds. The cost of SATA card and cables I can handle. I am just wary of the fact that I may be doing more damage by spinning it up. When you get a quote for data recovery, is that just the cost for recovery and I have to provide new media for the data to be recovered to? If anyone has any pointers for DIY recovery I would appreciate that…

]]> By: Mike http://hackaday.com/2008/11/15/failing-hard-drive-sounds/comment-page-1/#comment-51030 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:44:33 +0000 http://hackadaycom.wordpress.com/?p=5932#comment-51030 @syale
Spinrite is more than likely to kill the drive as it breaks the first rule of data recovery: never write back to a failing disc.

Save your money. You’ll be much safer off using ddrescue to image it to a new drive.

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