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Pragma · 08-11-2003, 05:17 PM

The tick of death, as we call it at work, is the sound of the bearings slowly siezing up. It sounds like that's what your drive may be doing - the seek-head impacting against the side of the drive case.

Chances are, you won't be able to recover any data off it if the drive is so far gone that the system won't boot. What you can try is to take your current harddrive, take it out of your system, and keep it somewhere safe.

Buy a new harddrive, build the system, and then put the old harddrive in as a secondary drive. If you're very lucky, you might be able to swipe a few files off it.

08-11-2003, 05:17 PM	#3 (permalink)
Pragma I am Winter Born Location: Alexandria, VA	The tick of death, as we call it at work, is the sound of the bearings slowly siezing up. It sounds like that's what your drive may be doing - the seek-head impacting against the side of the drive case. Chances are, you won't be able to recover any data off it if the drive is so far gone that the system won't boot. What you can try is to take your current harddrive, take it out of your system, and keep it somewhere safe. Buy a new harddrive, build the system, and then put the old harddrive in as a secondary drive. If you're very lucky, you might be able to swipe a few files off it. __________________ Eat antimatter, Posleen-boy!