I'm pretty sure its going. but you can advs me if its not. I have a WD 200gb hdd use as a slave (store all me stuff on there, except windows). For some reason when it's powered my main drive (c) doesnt want to load. When it does load (after several reboots & and a quick beatdown with my boot) it will shut windows down with an error. I believe it was a Redudency cylce prob. I forgot to get a snap. Could it be that the slave is going? Would really really suck cause i have SOOOO much stuff i need on there.
So just take the hdd and put it in a ziplock bag and toss it (by toss i mean gently place it in the freezer) and leave it there for 2 - 3 hrs and then stick it back in the pc? That cant be healthy! K now once its done whats the fastest way to move 180gbs of data to another hdd in the least amount of time?
also i have heard some success stories of people dropping their drives squarely on a flat surface from like a foot or two (seriously) it apparently frees up the needles or something... but, i guess this is only for a hardware malfuntion maybe your C drive is to blame. try using a spare hd as a master, or try using only the 200gb and a live linux cd. try a different IDE/SATA cable. try an alternate power plug/PSU. unplug ANY unimportant devices (like cdrom, fans, floppy, CCFLs, etc) sometimes its not the specific device failing, but other things attributing to it
surpisingly freezing the hdd worked! i also before freezing it dropped it on a flat surfce apprx 1in off my desk 2 times. boots up, just need to get my new pc to move all my files over. thx guys
