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Old 09-03-2003, 05:07 AM   #10 (permalink)
AxByC
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Quote:
Originally posted by sakvee
Most of the time the drive will just stop with little or no warning. Occasionally though you will a metalic clunking sound which is a sure sign your drive is on the way out. If you run Linux, check the logs and see if you get any hard drive seek or write errors.

Also a neat tip on recovering data from dead hardrives is to place the hardrive in the freezer for an hour than install back into system.

yep pretty much every drive that ive had that has failed. made an odd clicking sound before it died.
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