I need computer HELP!!!

357 · 06-11-2009, 12:37 PM

When you power it on, listen for a clunking sound. If you hear that, your hard drive is toast. Someone with skill might be able to get some data off if you're lucky.

No clunk, then I would snug up all the cables from your hard drive to your motherboard and power supply.

GTCanuk · 06-13-2009, 07:56 AM

Make sure you have no USB drives or camera cards plugged in. Might be trying to boot off of 1 of those. This includes card plugged into printers by the way

Silound · 06-16-2009, 11:37 AM

Backups are your friend. Redundancy is your friend, and redundancy is also your friend.

I can't tell you the amount of data I've tried to recover from toasted drives over the years. I'm singularly disappointed that so many people don't at least keep a second copy somewhere on a disc or drive, but I guess most people are happy to believe it won't happen to them.

My personal advice to everyone that has data that's too important to lose is to use a RAID 1 or RAID 5 configuration with at least 4 drives. There's no such thing as enough redundancy for data security, and 100 new drives at 100 each are still cheaper than most data recovery services (the good ones run $15,000+ for larger drives). As a secondary, it's not a bad idea to burn all data to DVD's once a week/month, even with a RAID, because those DVD's offer an off-site backup in the event of fire, flood, or electrical damages.

06-11-2009, 12:37 PM	#1
357 Will herf for food Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Mike Location: Home is where I park it Posts: 4,075 Trading: (9)	Re: I need computer HELP!!! When you power it on, listen for a clunking sound. If you hear that, your hard drive is toast. Someone with skill might be able to get some data off if you're lucky. No clunk, then I would snug up all the cables from your hard drive to your motherboard and power supply. __________________ “Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar;” Mark Twain

06-13-2009, 07:56 AM	#2
GTCanuk Still Watching My Back Join Date: Nov 2008 First Name: Paul (AKA Darrel) Location: Windsor. ON Posts: 248 Trading: (0)	Re: I need computer HELP!!! Make sure you have no USB drives or camera cards plugged in. Might be trying to boot off of 1 of those. This includes card plugged into printers by the way

06-16-2009, 11:37 AM	#3
Silound ex-CS Swamp Gorilla Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Somewhere in a swamp, south of sanity Posts: 802 Trading: (15)	Re: I need computer HELP!!! Backups are your friend. Redundancy is your friend, and redundancy is also your friend. I can't tell you the amount of data I've tried to recover from toasted drives over the years. I'm singularly disappointed that so many people don't at least keep a second copy somewhere on a disc or drive, but I guess most people are happy to believe it won't happen to them. My personal advice to everyone that has data that's too important to lose is to use a RAID 1 or RAID 5 configuration with at least 4 drives. There's no such thing as enough redundancy for data security, and 100 new drives at 100 each are still cheaper than most data recovery services (the good ones run $15,000+ for larger drives). As a secondary, it's not a bad idea to burn all data to DVD's once a week/month, even with a RAID, because those DVD's offer an off-site backup in the event of fire, flood, or electrical damages. __________________ Back in black, and better than ever! You can't keep a good gorilla down! LSU Geaux Tigers!