I received an error message with My Dell Desktop computer that a Hard Disc Utility has received errors that my disc drive was opporating out of the normal paramaters. Back up your data immediately. When I returned to this computer later, there was a whinning and clicking sound and the drive was not being recognized. I get the Bios Set-up screen to press f1 to reboot or f2 to setup.
This hard drive is a year 2001 IBM ATA/IDE 40 gig 7200 rpm running Windows 2000 OS. I have read that for mechanical failures such as this sounds to be (head problem) that it is possible to put the drive in as much of an airtight bag (s) and place it in either the refrigerator or freezer for a couple of hours and then install quickly through USB port (I assume through external case enclosure that will hold a 3.5" drive and opperate through USB) as slave and it will possible read long enough to back up onto a primary drive.
Anyone with any experience or comment on this procedure would be appreciated. There is about 9gigs of family pictures and word documents that we would like to retrieve, but cant justify a $900-1100 recovery process to send to an engineer in a clean room.
Thanks for your opinions/experience
This hard drive is a year 2001 IBM ATA/IDE 40 gig 7200 rpm running Windows 2000 OS. I have read that for mechanical failures such as this sounds to be (head problem) that it is possible to put the drive in as much of an airtight bag (s) and place it in either the refrigerator or freezer for a couple of hours and then install quickly through USB port (I assume through external case enclosure that will hold a 3.5" drive and opperate through USB) as slave and it will possible read long enough to back up onto a primary drive.
Anyone with any experience or comment on this procedure would be appreciated. There is about 9gigs of family pictures and word documents that we would like to retrieve, but cant justify a $900-1100 recovery process to send to an engineer in a clean room.
Thanks for your opinions/experience