Hard Drive wont power on - need help!!?

Question

I need to know how to rebuild my hard drive - literally. It is doa for sure. When I plug it in, it does not spin, jolt - nothing. Both my hard drives did this at the same time. Strong power surge I'm guessing. I replaced the hard drive, cables, etc. . Now I just need to get the data off the old hard drives - any suggestions? I'm thinking there has to be a way I can transfer the disks from one hd to an other similar one? I received my degree in computers 15 yrs ago. This is something we didn't cover that indebt then :-)

Answer 1

If you have a good understanding of computers then you just might be able to pull this off. Get a known good hard drive that has the OS on it and if it is not the master hard drive than make it the master hard drive. Sometimes a bad hard drive might not boot but may still act as a slave if you make it the slave hard drive. Go into Windows Explorier after you boot up your new master hard drive you just created and transfer the files from the bad hard drive to the known good one. There is about a 50-50 chance this will work as that has been my odds with this procedure. I have saved information from several hard drives that would not boot but it slaved well enough to save my files. Once my wife lost her valuable hard drive (power surge like you) with all our family pictures and I got back 90% of them using this method. If this will not work then it is up to the pros and that can be very expensive.

Please note: Do not let them keep your hard drives if a pro has to do the work. There is a chance that if you reformat and scandisk your two hard drives, after the lost files have been retrived, that they might work as good back up drives. Good Luck

Answer 2

if it is truly hardware dead - leave it alone -- youre screwed...

Unless you have a clean-room in a lab, you shouldnt open a hard drive , any dust on the platters can cause major damage.

If there is something you need from it, take it to a computer repair place and have them retrieve data and back it up to another drive.

2 things the novice user should never open:

Hard Drives
Power Supply

Answer 3

properly, once you boot up in case you get the initial demonstrate that instantly names your hardware etc then that is accessible your puzzling-pressure is useless. no matter if it really is, then it received't spin and / or means up. 2d. if you're not from now on getting any beeps then it would want to correctly be both one among 2 issues: The motherboard is fried or the CPU is fried. one thanks to carry close is that if something else lights fixtures up or activates which include different puzzling-drives, followers or CD-ROM yet you get no P.O.S.T. then that is the CPU. If no longer something occurs then it would want to correctly be the motherboard. First issues first... make constructive your means provide is on and that the means connectors are placed outstanding