Comments on: Hard Drive Recovery Breakdown – Heads Platters and Clicking

By: Jacqui Best

Jacqui Best — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:22:32 +0000

Antika
How do you know the platter are damaged?

By: Antika

Antika — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:49:11 +0000

My Seagate 250GB external hard drive platters are damaged badly. Any chance of recovering the data?

By: Michael Stankard

Michael Stankard — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:45:54 +0000

Rick,

Have you tried any of the advanced boot options? What version of Windows are you running?

By: Rick Milam

Rick Milam — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:08:51 +0000

I have a PC, when it boots I get a message that reads (boot failure: system halt).
What do I do, or what can I do?

Thank you for your time.
Rick

By: Joseph Whitehead

Joseph Whitehead — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:01:01 +0000

What’s sad is all the drives that seem to spin up, make the exact same sounds as normal, but are unfathomably undetectable after a reboot. I’m willing to bet that we won’t just see the S ones named after a fish, have this problem since the SATA buss is a purely serial format with insane timing. What’s funny is that with firmware glitching like that, that your data is most likely entirely intact physically. It’s just the small part about being 2 inches away and might as well be a light-year that drives owners crazy. It’s literally getting stuck behind the logic board. That last step will always get you!

Needless to say, having a mirrored/FEC ECC RAID is nice, but doesn’t do nearly as good as putting data offsite.