Maxtor disk spinning but clicking

[ffocus]

Hi all,

I've rencetly had a Maxtor Diamond Max Plus9 200Gb drive die on me. - It stopped spinning so assumed the motor was dead. I had an identical drive so movd the platters into the donor drive and now all i get is a clicking noise when i boot up. The bios doesnt recognize the drive so I am unable to recover anything. I spoke to a data recovery company who said that the platters need to be specially aligned and would have to charge me ££££ to get it fixed etc Is there anything I can do to try and salvage my data without sending it off? Would I be able to re-align the disk myself? I read somewhere that by putting it in a freezer this might re-align it?

Thanks in advance guys

[HDD Spaz]

Are you taking the P*SS? How did you move platters? Did you keep them aligned? Your data is probably gone for good. Be prepared to pay big buck just to attempt a recovery regardless of outcome.

What was you thinking? If I had a pain in my chest I wouldn't remove my heart without going to the doctors first. I'm sorry to say but you are stupid.

[BlackST]

It's a joke?

[scratchy]

It must be a joke, no body would consider doing this, would they ?

[CK]

You COULD put it in the freezer, but I'd recommend you don't bother taking it out again.

A little knowledge is a VERY dangerous thing.

[BlackST]

In any case, who between pros would dare?

[HDD Spaz]

I would do it if he is willing to pay me £100 per hour regardless of outcome.

[ffocus]

Hello all,

Yes in hindsight you are probably all right in that it was stupid to remove the platters without using any speicialist equipment to hold the alignment although I am not a pro or amateur in data re-covery just an end user who thougt it might be worthwhile...

I've just spoken to another recovery company who charge a flat rate of £295 plus VAT plus any parts required who have said they think they can recover the data or no charge at all. I'll let you know what the outcome is.

[pcimage]

Who is this company, out of interest?

[HDD Spaz]

I bet I know. you sure you told them what you did?

[hddguy]

Is this company fully aware of what you have done? £295 is nowhere near enough to cover labour alone considering the difficulties this job will entail! Maybe more like £2950 would be accurate

[HDD Spaz]

I can guarantee the data will not be recovered for £295 plus Parts, Plus VAT. It's not economically viable. Unless the cost of parts are £2000.

[hddguy]

Try describing the method you used to:

a) remove heads
b) transfer platters

Maybe from this we can determine if in fact there may be a chance? And please dont say you transfered platters one at a time!!

[BlackST]

We - and he - will know...

[CK]

Hmmm, sounds like good oul EasyRecovery to me. £295 half price sale, get your data recovered while you can!!

[HDD Spaz]

SALE NOW ON. 6 YEARS AND COUNTING! Easy Recovery is £249.99 not £295. How many companies offer fixed price recovery for £295. can't be that many.

[ffocus]

dataphoenix

[HDD Spaz]

never heard of them.

[pcimage]

If you've removed the heads and platters yourself, and they recover the data for £295, I will show my ass.

And it's not pretty!!

[hddguy]

Did you explain to them that you had physically removed the platters, or did you simply say that you thought motor was damaged?