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My hard disk drive has started making funny grinding and clicking noises and guess what? Its the one with all my photos on. :eek::eek:

Luckily :woot: it was struggling along and allowed me back up all my photos. This was done pretty quickly before the disk failed completely. Everything backed up and happy now.

New 500g disk on order with ebuyer for £64 including vat :) which leaves the old disk in the shade as it was only 40gb. While I was ordering the disk I thought I'd add some more memory, 1gd to be precise :lol:.

Anyway the disk stopped making that awful noise and seems to be working OK before I pulled it out of the PC, but theres no way I'm using this disk again.

I was lucky this time and from now on I'm definitely backing up on a more regular basis from now on. :thumbs:

I'm just posting this so that other forum members don't fall into the same trap. Once the disk fails is almost impossible to get the data back.
 
glad you got it in time, I had a couple go earlier in the year :(
 
You right there MattyH, it was a lucky escape. The memories not the best quality, but will do for the time being, or until I can get a new PC.
 
not a very nice experience there dod. you have my sympathy on that on.

I did here the one of the major laptop manufatcures, dell or HP not sure which, have release a laptop with a solid state memory hdd (i.e. like you memory card). I love this idea as the biggest failure with pc's are the mechanical parts i.e. hdd, cd/dvd drives and fans. Only problem was that is came in around 2 1/2 grand, but we will start to see more of them and the price will drop overtime.

marky_h I just read that link you posted. Could idea using contraction of metal parts to get the drive working, something I don't think I'd ever try though. This must form condensation on the hdd and place it back into the pc to soon and you could loose the motherboard and other parts through water damage.
 
There's only two types of hard drive:

One that has failed, and;
One that is about to fail

taxi said:
I did here the one of the major laptop manufatcures, dell or HP not sure which, have release a laptop with a solid state memory hdd (i.e. like you memory card). I love this idea as the biggest failure with pc's are the mechanical parts i.e. hdd, cd/dvd drives and fans. Only problem was that is came in around 2 1/2 grand, but we will start to see more of them and the price will drop overtime.

marky_h I just read that link you posted. Could idea using contraction of metal parts to get the drive working, something I don't think I'd ever try though. This must form condensation on the hdd and place it back into the pc to soon and you could loose the motherboard and other parts through water damage.
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Solid state drives are already available, the write speeds aren't great at the moment so you'd probably want a couple in a RAID 0 striped config until the technology matures a little

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=14&sortby=nameAsc&subid=910&mfrid=

There are plenty of ways to resurrect a dead hard drive and I have used most of them over the years. Even as far as taking the things apart and replacing internal parts
 
The chap 2 doors up from me was saying yesterday his hdd died on him the other day - he has everything from the last 5 years on there with no backup. He's having to pay a data retrieval company to get as much back as possible - he's only bothered about photos and stuff. Oddly enough the first thing I did when I got home was make sure my backup's were up to date.
 
Glad to hear you managed to save your data:) I had an HDD fail on me at work and had no back up at all. It cost me £500 to get the data recovered :( A lesson learned the hard way :bonk: I now back up everything, EVERY day!
 
Ross, cheers for that link. I did not realise they where readily available. Not upto date as I used to be. They are still a little expensive and I would have trouble justifying one. Give it a ferw years and access times and price will have come down.

As anyone any experience with these solid state drives? Is this good or bad?

Grendel, Ouch.

Foggy, I feel sorry for your mate, but it looks like you've learnded a good lesson
 
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