Help! my harddrive isnt working and I have VERY important stuff on it.

Ive had my harddrive for about 6-8 months. It worked great, but I took it out and put it back in It stopped working, Im guessing that I fried it. I make movies, and I have alot of my work on it. Ive tried acouple differnt methods of trying to get it to work (external harddrive case, changing the jumper on it, moving the jumper around, checking the bios to see if it shows up, and it didnt.) This is VERY important, and I really need help. It does still power up, because it gets warm and I can hear it. Its a Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 300 gb., Model# ST3300831A

Thanks for your help and time soooo much -Nick

Download and burn a BartPE cd. Boot the computer off of it and use the file explorer in Bart PE to attempt to access the drive.

Can you find me a link to bartpe? I cant seem to find it.

what do I put in the source section?

If that doesnt work put the HD in a plastic bag and seal it tight then stick it in the freezer for 24 hours, it can sometimes give you just enough time to copy of any files before failing again

Haha, that sounds very weird, but at this point Im so desprite Ill try anything. but I still need help with the bart pe thing

Read this for BartPe: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/start/

oooh ok, I get it now, I had to insert the xp disc. Ill see if it works, thanks -Nick

Ok, did evrything, and got to the file explorer, but......... my drive did not show up. any more suggestions?? and is the freezer idea a risky idea?

if you cant access the hard drive with BartPE then it is probably dead. and would require expensive specialist techniques to recover the data.

can you tell if the drive is spinning at all?

yea I think it is spinning, I can hear it and it gets warm.

This actually works for some mechanical issues... At very least long enough to get some of your data off. I've only used this technique for drives that 'click' though... I'm not so sure it would work for non-mechnical issues.

yea, So any more suggestions? My freinds and I have been working on a movie for months that is on there, their gonna kill me when they find out.

PM me if you need data recovery
freezing then heating worked on older drives newer drives
it's not a good idea
the servo is not built the same

I dont think its mechanical. It's probably a bios problem. do u no what bios version u have?

Idk what bios version i have, could you help me figure out. but I tried the harddrive on a differnt computer and it didnt work on that either