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braunerf1

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25. January 2008 @ 09:02

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Hi, yesterday my hard drive crashed on my computer and now it just makes a ticking noise. I hooked it up as a slave to a safe computer so I could recover whatever data I could. The only problem is that when I have the hard drive hooked up as a slave, the computer that I am using to access the information will not get past the windows loading screen. It scans the slave hard drive and freezes the computer. Is there a way I can by-pass this so I can access the files on the corrupt hard drive? The hard drive is not the first boot device so that is not the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It is a SATA Seagate 160gb hard drive.

Thanks.

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sammorris

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25. January 2008 @ 13:00

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The only thing I can think of is attaching the hard drive after the PC's booted up. Since it's a SATA drive, you can just plug it in after windows has loaded.

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core2kid

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25. January 2008 @ 20:00

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Originally posted by sammorris:
The only thing I can think of is attaching the hard drive after the PC's booted up. Since it's a SATA drive, you can just plug it in after windows has loaded.

When you do that though, plug in power with the computer off and just the SATA cable when the computer is on. You can also try an external drive or professional services if the data is irrecoverable and its very important but lets hope it doesnt get to that.

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braunerf1

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25. January 2008 @ 20:17

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i believe there is something wrong with the drive. it makes the loading noise does 3 ticks, loading noise, 4 ticks, loading noise etc. the drive has power and spins, it just seems like it is stuck somehow. a friend of mine suggested finding the exact hard drive and changing the chipset. he said sometimes they can jam up. i also talked to the pros about recovering my data and they said a price range of 600-2000 dollars. i do not have this kind of money.

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25. January 2008 @ 20:18

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Actually core2kid, with S-ATA there's no harm in hotplugging either, thankfully.

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core2kid

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25. January 2008 @ 20:40

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Thanks for clarifying that Sam. Now about the data, How much needs to be recovered (in GB?)

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