Hard drive failure and no back up.

[trainslayer]

Or at least not enuf back up.

Computer wouldn’t boot. Would go thru POST and then a black screen w/flashing cursor. I am able to access bios. Ran Spinrite level 2 (about 25 min/40g drive) and found no errors. Took drive out of original computer and slaved in 2nd computer. When I try to access drive, computer says not accessible, corrupted (or close to that.)

Put drive back in original computer and ran Spinrite level 4. Started about 7pm. Spinrite indicated it would take about 10 hours. When I got up the next morning there had been a power failure at my house and computer and monitor both off. Don’t know if spinrite finished or not. Now drive makes a clicking noise for about 20 seconds when I try to boot and boot sequence seems to go a little farther. But computer does not recognize that there is a hard drive installed. I tried to restore from XP cd but no drive found.

I did talk to a recovery business and they indicated it could cost between $350 and $3000 to recover my data. I would like to recover but am not willing to spend that much.

Any advice before I take a ball peen hammer to the drive to ease my frustration. (I’ve already exhausted myself kicking myself in the ass.) [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

I am the proud new owner of a new computer tho. And a new external hd for backup. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]