Hard drive help?

Question

After my parents Hard drive stop working (constant blue screen, the drive was beeping at use also) we went and bought a new one. Yet, it had my parents and my younger brothers music on it, and pictures of passed away relatives, and more important files. But, we can't set the drive as a slave, because it wont read it. Is there any way that we can get the files without having to shell out $150 for somebody to do it? Will the "freezer" thing work here?

Whoops, i meant clicking, not beeping.

Answer 1

This is what I read on Window Secrets and Yes it Might just work...if not you've lost nothing trying.
Here's how the freezing trick works:

Take the dying, otherwise-irreparable hard drive out of your computer, and place it a Ziploc bag (to help minimize condensation on the drives). Put the bagged drive in a freezer for several hours. Then, working fast, take the drive out, remove the bag, and reconnect the chilled drive to the PC. If the drive spins up and seems to be working, get your essential data off the drive as fast as you possibly can.

The best option for this is to selectively copy portions of the dying drive to a new drive. Start with the most essential folder trees (My Documents, for example), and then copy increasingly less important folders as the drive warms up. Odds are, the drive will again become erratic or fail. But, if you're lucky, you'll be able to squeeze one last brief use from it.

The above method can work, but it's classification as a "last-ditch effort" begs the question: What are the front-line techniques? Glad you asked! Here's a series of articles I wrote that will walk you through a whole range of proven techniques for resurrecting a dead hard drive (including the in-the-freezer trick mentioned above):
http://windowssecrets.com/links/pisogpilxtadd/25c43ch/?url=www.langa.com%2Fnewsletters%2F2002%2F2002-06-13.htm%232
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2002/2002-06-24.htm#1

Answer 2

You can find softwares online for hard disk recovery. It recovers 80% of the data but depends on the kind of damage the HDD suffered. So there is no guarantee. If the data is too critical then you will have to pay those 150$. About the freezer trick I would only like to say it is your chance, it is not confirmed technique as yet.

Answer 3

Do not confuse your computer's Central Processing Unit (CPU) with the hard drive it contains. The CPU is the entire tower, while the hard drive is the tiny box deep inside it that actually holds the data. What you need to do is take the old hard drive OUT of the old tower and put it inside the new tower set up as a slave drive. How do I know you are confused? SIMPLE!! Hard drives do NOT beep!!

Answer 4

It sounds pretty darn dead. Couldn't hurt to try the freezer trick (disclaimer: I don't know what you're talking about), but it looks like you'll have to decide if your files are worth the cost of a recovery. I thought HD data recovery cost way more than $150.

Answer 5

did your put something new in the putter before is started beeping/plug anything in?like memory or a card.the beeping means a error so if you can undo the last thing you did before the beeping.you might be able to read the hard drive

Answer 6

1 trick to try instead of paying a pro is to find an exact make and model and switch out the media descriptor (the board on the back) This is usually the first thing to go on a drive.

Good luck to you.

Answer 7

If the old hard drive was still working at all. you might be able to put it back in long enough to save what you want on a cd, then put it on you new one.
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Always keep a back-up, especially if you suspect hard drive failure.
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