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dlucant · May 19th, 2008, 04:00 AM

What do you know? Another new user simply because of this thread.

I was playing music on my computer when BANG! Music stopped playing, after looking around the room thinking "what the hell was that" I noticed my external Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB HDD was...dead. I switched it off, then back on...and then I heard the music. The music I have never ever heard before - the music of my nightmares.

So I searched google, found this place and tried tapping, hitting and pretty much wacking the HDD in hopes that the reader would unstick from the platter(s) (i dont really understand how HDD work...). No luck.

I need to get like...well 250GB worth of data off the drive...and I have no idea what to do. Some people on this thread said to open the drive up (carefully of course), but I don't feel comfortable opening up a drive - I've never done it before (although I did already take the HDD out of the external frame). Is this something that I would be able to do without wrecking the data on the drive? And is anyone able to provide strict instructions as to what to do if I should open up the drive?! My warranty is long gone, so I can fiddle, hit, smack or burn the HDD in any way I want - as long as I get my data off it!!

Any help would be appreciated soo soooo soooooo much.

Davey

Edit: Had a spare very very OLD Maxtor HDD lying around (it was 3.5GB big...hahahahaha) anyway because I have never really seen the inside of a HDD before, I unscrewed it...opened it up and well...interesting. Just a single plate that is like a perfect mirror. I dont know how different this 3.5GB very ancient maxtor hdd would be compared to this 250GB musical instrument I have here with me, but would it be much different do you think?

I can also see how easily the platter could get...its incredible. Considering i was going to throw away this 3.5 GB one, I put my finger prints all over it and such. However I can see how easily the head reader and the platter could get stuck together...

But anywho, any ieas, please let me know! I still dont have the balls to open up my 250GB!

May 19th, 2008, 04:00 AM	#243 (permalink)
dlucant Junior Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 5	What do you know? Another new user simply because of this thread. I was playing music on my computer when BANG! Music stopped playing, after looking around the room thinking "what the hell was that" I noticed my external Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB HDD was...dead. I switched it off, then back on...and then I heard the music. The music I have never ever heard before - the music of my nightmares. So I searched google, found this place and tried tapping, hitting and pretty much wacking the HDD in hopes that the reader would unstick from the platter(s) (i dont really understand how HDD work...). No luck. I need to get like...well 250GB worth of data off the drive...and I have no idea what to do. Some people on this thread said to open the drive up (carefully of course), but I don't feel comfortable opening up a drive - I've never done it before (although I did already take the HDD out of the external frame). Is this something that I would be able to do without wrecking the data on the drive? And is anyone able to provide strict instructions as to what to do if I should open up the drive?! My warranty is long gone, so I can fiddle, hit, smack or burn the HDD in any way I want - as long as I get my data off it!! Any help would be appreciated soo soooo soooooo much. Davey Edit: Had a spare very very OLD Maxtor HDD lying around (it was 3.5GB big...hahahahaha) anyway because I have never really seen the inside of a HDD before, I unscrewed it...opened it up and well...interesting. Just a single plate that is like a perfect mirror. I dont know how different this 3.5GB very ancient maxtor hdd would be compared to this 250GB musical instrument I have here with me, but would it be much different do you think? I can also see how easily the platter could get...its incredible. Considering i was going to throw away this 3.5 GB one, I put my finger prints all over it and such. However I can see how easily the head reader and the platter could get stuck together... But anywho, any ieas, please let me know! I still dont have the balls to open up my 250GB! Last edited by dlucant : May 19th, 2008 at 04:46 AM.