What should I do

xXGhostxX · Post by **xXGhostxX** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:52 am

My computer HDD just suicided itself and deleted my stuff

. Suggestions? Apparently I didn't learn from Jorbtar and forgot to back up my files.

Kaios · Post by **Kaios** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:59 am

Cry about it

Nummy · Post by **Nummy** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:02 am

Have RAID 1 or 5

xXGhostxX · Post by **xXGhostxX** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:04 am

Kaios wrote:Cry about it

I already did that

. Any other suggestions that i haven't tried yet

Nummy wrote:Have RAID 1 or 5

I have no idea. I'm not good at computers

Joe69 · Post by **Joe69** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:11 am

I hear good things of this http://www.grc.com/sr/faq.htm hope this helps.

How possible is it to recover data from a crashed hard drive?

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WatsonX · Post by **WatsonX** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 11:27 am

If your operating system is windows, you may need to delete system32.

NIGNOGNAG · Post by **NIGNOGNAG** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:09 pm

WatsonX wrote:If your operating system is windows, you may need to delete system32.

This^

It'so only way.

Post by **TeckXKnight** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 1:10 pm

Define dead. Dead as in it wont boot up? Can you boot it with an off disc OS or is your computer not even seeing it? Is it booting and the files are just gone? If they're just gone and you don't have a backup then they're gone and that's all there is to it.

borka · Post by **borka** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 1:35 pm

first: what OS have you been running? did you (not do you!) hear any kind of noises of that HDD (motor spinning, cklicking)? What brand is that HDD?

second: don't do anything with that HDD now !!! - best is to take all cables off

third: get another HDD - put OS and programs on that ...

fourth: post when done... and pm me

Zou · Post by **Zou** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 3:43 pm

from what I could understand through the bawling, it just failed. there's nothing on his desktop, and 100s of read error popups.

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