This is gonna sound really corny, but it's worked for me more times than I can count. 1. Take the drive out of the laptop. 2. Put the drive in a Ziploc bag. 3. Put the drive and the Ziploc bag in the freezer for an hour or two. 4. After the drive is good and frozen, plug it back in and get your data off the drive before it warms up. I swear it works! > Just had a laptop hard drive fail on me a couple of days ago, it just > makes the familiar tick, tick, tick sound when trying to boot. I managed > to pull some data from it before it went, but still have a lot of unbacked > up data on it. > > My guess would be the plates are fine, just the thing doesn't want to spin > anymore. > > I was wondering if anyone had feedback on what the general costs are for > data recovery services on hard drives that have failed. Also, any > recomendations on where to take it? > > -David > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list