Guest Joe Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 My hard drive failed on my laptop this morning and it wouldn't boot. I tried to put it into an external enclosure but it wouldn't show up on the MY Computer folder. I tried another hard drive and it showed up so the connection and the enclosure are working properly. Is there any other way I can get my hard drive to show up as a drive on My Computer or is the hard drive fried?
Guest Gordon Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 Re: External hard drive not showing up using external enclosure "Joe" <joe5345@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1184604680.350654.90050@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > My hard drive failed on my laptop this morning and it wouldn't boot. I > tried to put it into an external enclosure but it wouldn't show up on > the MY Computer folder. I tried another hard drive and it showed up so > the connection and the enclosure are working properly. Is there any > other way I can get my hard drive to show up as a drive on My Computer > or is the hard drive fried? > What part of "failed" means "it's still working"?
Guest Joe Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 Re: External hard drive not showing up using external enclosure On Jul 16, 12:56 pm, "Gordon" <gbpli...@gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > "Joe" <joe5...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:1184604680.350654.90050@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > > > My hard drive failed on my laptop this morning and it wouldn't boot. I > > tried to put it into an external enclosure but it wouldn't show up on > > the MY Computer folder. I tried another hard drive and it showed up so > > the connection and the enclosure are working properly. Is there any > > other way I can get my hard drive to show up as a drive on My Computer > > or is the hard drive fried? > > What part of "failed" means "it's still working"? so if it's shot it's shot? I just figured maybe if I plugged it into the computer I could get to some of the files I've yet to back up, no dice huh?
Guest Shenan Stanley Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 Re: External hard drive not showing up using external enclosure Joe wrote: > On Jul 16, 12:56 pm, "Gordon" <gbpli...@gmail.com.invalid> wrote: >> "Joe" <joe5...@gmail.com> wrote in message >> >> news:1184604680.350654.90050@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... >> >>> My hard drive failed on my laptop this morning and it wouldn't >>> boot. I tried to put it into an external enclosure but it >>> wouldn't show up on the MY Computer folder. I tried another hard >>> drive and it showed up so the connection and the enclosure are >>> working properly. Is there any other way I can get my hard drive >>> to show up as a drive on My Computer or is the hard drive fried? >> >> What part of "failed" means "it's still working"? > > > so if it's shot it's shot? I just figured maybe if I plugged it into > the computer I could get to some of the files I've yet to back up, > no dice huh? Depends on *how* it failed. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Guest Joe Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 Re: External hard drive not showing up using external enclosure On Jul 16, 2:12 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Jul 16, 12:56 pm, "Gordon" <gbpli...@gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > >> "Joe" <joe5...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > >>news:1184604680.350654.90050@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > > >>> My hard drive failed on my laptop this morning and it wouldn't > >>> boot. I tried to put it into an external enclosure but it > >>> wouldn't show up on the MY Computer folder. I tried another hard > >>> drive and it showed up so the connection and the enclosure are > >>> working properly. Is there any other way I can get my hard drive > >>> to show up as a drive on My Computer or is the hard drive fried? > > >> What part of "failed" means "it's still working"? > > > so if it's shot it's shot? I just figured maybe if I plugged it into > > the computer I could get to some of the files I've yet to back up, > > no dice huh? > > Depends on *how* it failed. > > -- > Shenan Stanley > MS-MVP > -- > How To Ask Questions The Smart Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html a friend thinks it may have been a power surge because it wasn't giving me problems before this morning. When I plug it into the external enclosure it clicks madly and doesn't show up as a drive. Is there anywhere I can bring it where they can extract the information through some more sophisticated means?
Guest Shenan Stanley Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 Re: External hard drive not showing up using external enclosure Joe wrote: > a friend thinks it may have been a power surge because it wasn't > giving me problems before this morning. When I plug it into the > external enclosure it clicks madly and doesn't show up as a drive. > Is there anywhere I can bring it where they can extract the > information through some more sophisticated means? 'clicks madly'... Dead. You could likely get the data recovered at some data recovery house for $1000+ or with luck from someone who does the drop and plug in method and quickly gets your data off. heh -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Guest Joe Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 Re: External hard drive not showing up using external enclosure On Jul 16, 2:44 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Joe wrote: > > a friend thinks it may have been a power surge because it wasn't > > giving me problems before this morning. When I plug it into the > > external enclosure it clicks madly and doesn't show up as adrive. > > Is there anywhere I can bring it where they can extract the > > information through some more sophisticated means? > > 'clicks madly'... > Dead. > > You could likely get the data recovered at some data recovery house for > $1000+ or with luck from someone who does the drop and plug in method and > quickly gets your data off. heh > > -- > Shenan Stanley > MS-MVP > -- > How To Ask Questions The Smart Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Ok it's dead. I've gone through the 7 stages. Now what do I do with the hard drive? should I just throw it out? How can I be sure someone with great skills and bad motives won't find it and get to my personal data. If I wave a magnet over it will that be sufficient to dump the data?
Guest Bob I Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 Re: External hard drive not showing up using external enclosure Joe wrote: > On Jul 16, 2:44 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>Joe wrote: >> >>>a friend thinks it may have been a power surge because it wasn't >>>giving me problems before this morning. When I plug it into the >>>external enclosure it clicks madly and doesn't show up as adrive. >>>Is there anywhere I can bring it where they can extract the >>>information through some more sophisticated means? >> >>'clicks madly'... >>Dead. >> >>You could likely get the data recovered at some data recovery house for >>$1000+ or with luck from someone who does the drop and plug in method and >>quickly gets your data off. heh >> >>-- >>Shenan Stanley >> MS-MVP >>-- >>How To Ask Questions The Smart Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > > Ok it's dead. I've gone through the 7 stages. Now what do I do with > the hard drive? should I just throw it out? How can I be sure someone > with great skills and bad motives won't find it and get to my personal > data. If I wave a magnet over it will that be sufficient to dump the > data? > Opening it with a hammer will preclude any successful data recovery.
Guest Joe Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Re: External hard drive not showing up using external enclosure On Jul 16, 5:29 pm, Bob I <bire...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Jul 16, 2:44 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>Joe wrote: > > >>>a friend thinks it may have been a power surge because it wasn't > >>>giving me problems before this morning. When I plug it into the > >>>external enclosure it clicks madly and doesn't show up as adrive. > >>>Is there anywhere I can bring it where they can extract the > >>>information through some more sophisticated means? > > >>'clicks madly'... > >>Dead. > > >>You could likely get the data recovered at some data recovery house for > >>$1000+ or with luck from someone who does the drop and plug in method and > >>quickly gets your data off. heh > > >>-- > >>Shenan Stanley > >> MS-MVP > >>-- > >>How To Ask Questions The Smart Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > Ok it's dead. I've gone through the 7 stages. Now what do I do with > > the hard drive? should I just throw it out? How can I be sure someone > > with great skills and bad motives won't find it and get to my personal > > data. If I wave a magnet over it will that be sufficient to dump the > > data? > > Opening it with a hammer will preclude any successful data recovery. Unfortunately the computer is not mine, it's a company computer but I do not know what they are going to do with the hard drive/computer once I send it back to them. For all I know they will sell it to some third party and end up on ebay. I cannot get to the hard drive, it's corrupt so the best I can think is to place a large magnet on it for a night.
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