Hard Drive issues

[xiaden]

My hard drive, seondary master, has stopped responding. the disk still spins, but nothing registers it. (how) can i recover the data from it. it had all my music and ipod editing artwork.

[CHAINS]

did you try it on an other computer? might still work..

[xiaden]

lol, that was the second thing i tried. then i went through all the old recovery motions... freezing it, tapping the side. I'm almost 100% sure it's the logic board now. which means data recovery, or no solution. bad news for me... i was almost done on the best theme ever...

[vaibhavgupta]

data recovery's a bitch. it's amazingly expensive, i had the same problem as you..and they tried charging me 8,000$ SGD to recover.

[xiaden]

Wow... i was just going to let a friend borrow it and see if he can get access to thes schools grade 100 clean room. charge: $35 for the logic board =P

[falut]

Well i had this problem with my old 20go hard drive and just threw it to garbage and bought a 250go for like 100$ lol...
Theres a few sites (google is your friend) that can recover data, but i didn't use them since they usualy cost 5x-145023440x time a hard drive soo..
Unless you reallly want to pay..
If it's still spinning tho there might be a easier way i dunno..

Hope you good luck,
jack

[vaibhavgupta]

well if he can change the logic board then that's fine isn't it, 35$ is worth it.

[PowerOfCheese]

try putting it in the freezer for 4hrs. sounds crazy, but it worked for me!! An I.T. guy told me to do this when mine stopped reading.