Hard Disk not breathing?Did you try mouth-to-mouth???

**Resurrection** · 13.10.10, 06:19

Your Hard Disk seems dead. It's not responding anymore. You hear a few "biz biz" when you're trying to boot from it and then it stops and you can't access it.

You try everything, and I mean everything because I know you... You even knock it, you even rock it because you remember having read that it might help. And that's true, the damned thing is just stucked in there. You well may succeed, but maybe not. You lost everything, and a hard disk.

Stop crying. The thing is dead, so why don't you open it ? You have nothing to loose. side. Don't touch the plates, don't touch anything. Plug it. Try to boot, froGet a screwdriver and have a peek in it or from another one or from a floppy, doesn't matter.

Observe. As you start up, the arm moves a bit (biz biz) but then it stops. Push on it a bit. The head will now go all the way to the inner part of the plates. That's the " biz biz biz biz biz biz biz biz biz biz biz " you're familiar with. If not, cut the power off and put it back on ; try something, you'll get lucky.

Save your data on another disk.

At the next restart, maybe you'll have to help it again, maybe not. It depends on how lucky you are.

SO there you go...
The Hard disk drive is possibly a man's favorite part in a computer.You lose it you lose everything.You don't quite know if you can pick yourself up after such a loss.You've spent the best times of your life with it...
You can try the above method to resuscitate it but if it still did not come back its time to let go...
Shed a few tears,mourn for a few days and move on...
I hear samsung has some amazing beautiful models with curves in all the right places...

Wait.what are we talking about?

**saebrtooth** · 13.10.10, 07:22

Out of all the brands of HDD Ive used there has only been one that suddenly crashed (less 9-10 months) crashed and no longer able to be used
Samsung

**Resurrection** · 13.10.10, 07:26

Whoa ...Don't diss my love like that...

I have two Samsung disks and the older of the two is elder to the other by 5 years and both are working without a glitch...in like EVER...

**yoco** · 13.10.10, 09:53

My oldest HDD is more than 7 years old!

And I hope it won't die soon

**Resurrection** · 18.10.10, 06:00

I found another case of refusing to give up...

Must...Not...Lose...Saved...Games...

My dead hard drive story

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I wonder if I'd try that hard on human beings...

No...Don't think so...

**desodorante** · 18.10.10, 15:35

I actually did that to a couple of HDDs, but I just thought of that, no Googling involved

I still remember the joy of turning 2 unusable HDDs into a working one...good old times

**Darth** · 18.10.10, 18:47

The first thing i would try if my drive failed is putting it into the freezer for a couple of hours and freeze it to -20°! It works and helped me once and saved the drive's guarantee as well!
So opening the drive would be a matter of the last resort or if there is no guarantee on the drive left...

But there is a funny thing you might try if the drive is opened anyway. Just use it normally and watch it operate and spinning the platters. I had a Samsung drive running that way. You can still read and write to it

**peepin** · 27.10.10, 09:55

Still working with a samsumg 80 gb hard disk ,nothing but normal .

**kelly** · 04.11.10, 15:31

Has anyone tried this ? I am exactly in the same situation as Resurrection has mentioned. I am virtually dead.

Originally Posted by Darth

The first thing i would try if my drive failed is putting it into the freezer for a couple of hours and freeze it to -20°! It works and helped me once and saved the drive's guarantee as well!
So opening the drive would be a matter of the last resort or if there is no guarantee on the drive left...

But there is a funny thing you might try if the drive is opened anyway. Just use it normally and watch it operate and spinning the platters. I had a Samsung drive running that way. You can still read and write to it

Are you sure about this pal?

**desodorante** · 04.11.10, 15:37

Originally Posted by kelly

Are you sure about this pal?

I have not tried it but it seems like cold helps the HDD work better.
I heard it numerous time.
What he failed to mention is that you have to be very careful. The HDD has to be placed in a dry container, preferably in a dry-working freezer. Moist could solidify in the HDD and it will just short all over.

**Darth** · 04.11.10, 16:22

Originally Posted by kelly

Are you sure about this pal?

Yes, absolutely! No joke! The cold will make the material contract and hopefully the jammed arm will become operational again... It's just physics.
But like desodorante said, you have to operate carefully and you have to make sure the drive will not come in contact with moist or the electronics will short circuit.

**slikrapid** · 04.11.10, 17:43

The cold will make the material contract and hopefully the jammed arm will become operational again... It's just physics.

somehow i doubt the temperatures generated inside the hd case are high enough to cause material contractions (more correctly: dilatation) worth mentioning, other possibilities:

- the arm doesn't receive enough el. current to be able to move from the original position (electronics problem)
- the electronic hd board could be replaced (sometimes its a simple solution for data recovery as opposed to companies that will do it for ridiculously high prices)
- the arm needs to be lubricated/cleaned (friction being the problem)

**Darth** · 04.11.10, 20:00

Why does freezing the drive sometimes work?
Well, to be honest, i don't know for sure!
I just assumed that it might be material contraction,however it was not the definitive explanation!

**kelly** · 05.11.10, 05:49

Originally Posted by Darth

Why does freezing the drive sometimes work?
Well, to be honest, i don't know for sure!
I just assumed that it might be material contraction,however it was not the definitive explanation!

How did you keep it away from moist inside the freezer ? Did you keep it inside a box? Kindly explain :)

**Darth** · 05.11.10, 15:09

Originally Posted by kelly

How did you keep it away from moist inside the freezer ? Did you keep it inside a box? Kindly explain :)

Here's an article that describes the procedure fairly well.
Additionally i would freeze it along with the cables attached and use an external USB-Enclosure.