Ok I came to play a game the was on my hard drive and i noticed my folders gone I tried to open up a folder and i wanted me to format the hard drive, i tried running a scan on the hard drive and it crashed the computer. i shut down the computer and tried different things changing the cable and other stuff. now the hard drive is make loud clacking nosies, is it died? Can i get my 70g of data off it? now i'm getting a grub boot: "error 21" what should i Do?
the error 21 is a grub boot loader error thats happening because i dont have all three hard drive installed
The drive is gone bye-bye. Getting your 70GB of amateur video and private cd-rips back will cost you A LOT of money (we're talkin 5 digits at least). And recovery is uncertain since the write heads have most likely been scratching the surface (the sounds coming from it).
If the data was important, but you don't want to spend a fortune on professional recovery you could always try to use Get Data Back and hit the drive against a table or something while it's running. (the clicking should stop) In most cases it won't work or even make things worse, but you can get lucky. You got nothing to lose.
god. i tried putting the hard drive verticly and it worked perfectly i can access all my files and stuff, however it still make odd nosies at time. was my raid card to blame?
WTF, ok so it turns out i can read the drive through linux but not windows, Should i just lay in the fetal position for several hours?
Just get out what files you want while you have the chance and throw away the drive afterwards. It's broken and can never be trusted. (Actually, you should NEVER count on that a disk won't fail. Always keep backups. Eventually ALL disks fail.)
i just kinda mad because i spend $99.98 to get a dvd burner and a hard drive, only to get my old one to work
Get what you can off it and get rid of it. Smilodon knows what he's talking about. I have been up this road before and loosing 4 years of memorable videos and pictures is not very fun. Back it up and buy a new one.
its not working. sure you can get data off of it, if you hold it vertically, but thats like having a shoe with a hole in the heel of it. sure you can walk on your toes for a while to keep water from getting in, but sooner or later that part of your shoe will wear out too. in other words, it wont work forever.
Is it the new one or an old one? Old CD drives do actually wear out and get reading problems... My 5 years old LG DVD-CD reader doesn't access all discs if they are even a bit bad.
