Hdd not working correctly, is it shagged?

[Mistikal]

Went out this afternoon, left the laptop on, everything was working A-ok.

Came home this evening to find laptop is off... booted it up, and got the dreaded "wrrr... tick tick.......... wrrr... tick tick............ wrrr... tick tick......" noise, and the BIOS doesn't find the drive.

She shagged?

Not sure if it's still in warranty either - Fujitsu 80GB, Manufacture Date - 2004-08.

Anyone able to shed light? I don't mind if I have to destroy another 80GB Fujitsu drive for it's circuit board to get this baby cranked.... ALL my data is on it!

andy

[TMM]

sounds like the "click of death". Probably the head scraping on the platter - bung it in the freezer for 10 minutes in an air-tight bag and see if you can get any data you need of it (metal shrinks slightly in the cold, and usually its enough to stop the head scraping the disk). If the head has been contacting the platter surface its its going to be best used as a door stop after you've got as much data as you can off it

[mpot]

Originally Posted by TMM

sounds like the "click of death". Probably the head scraping on the platter...

The noise is more likely to be the head moving from side to side as it is attempting to seek.

A crashed head would not tick - you would hear a scraping sound if the head was really scraping on the platter.

Cheers,
Martin.

[Mistikal]

Originally Posted by mpot

attempting to seek.

So there is a possibility that it's a problem with the circuit board, seeing as it's trying to seek but has NFI what it's looking at?

When I stick it in my USB HDD Caddy, and plug it in, it says it's getting a "Power Surge on the USB Port", on all the PC's I've tried.

I'll try the freezer method, and hope that works.

andy