who wan to destroy his hdd, give it to me, pm me

Oh, it's my pleasure to help you kill your HDD, just give your HDD to me !

what about continously using it?


my fren got WD Book 500gb.
both damaged.

he bought it early this year

Are we talking about damaged HDD or damage data??
Damage HDD is very difficult to recover...(Unless send it back to factory)
For damage data tthe new good solution is Recuva by Piriform.
www.recuva.com

If FAT or NTFS is corrupt, just quick format and use recuva deep scan. Remember not to overwrite our corrupted datas.......

I had 2 HDD, one seagate 200G, and a WD 250G burnt recently. Yes burnt! I could smell the smell of IC chip burnt coming from my external casing. Electrical engineeers will be familiar with this smell .
Anyway with a voltmeter I measured the voltage. It seems that theryre 4 points from the power cable of the ext casing, and the voltage was reversed!!!! 12v and 5 volts was reversed. Of course the IC's on the HDD pcb which only could receive 5 volts got a surge of 12 volts and that only meant meltdown.

Anyway I was really pissed because all the warranty for these brands only offer swap, meaning that its a one for one exchange minus the data. I went around lowyat and asked and theyre were charging at least 1500 ringgit for 200G regardless of the hardisk being used up to its fullest capacity or not.

I found this place on a website through google search http://www.mdr-xp.com/ and they provided data recovery services if it was hardware fault. Well this place is great cause unlike the places in lowyat, he said he could give home user rate rather than corporate rate which was expensive. It was much more reasonable. When I went there, I had lecturers from UM, and staff from companies coming in with their fauly HDD's and other people. He explained to me off the record that these days, HDD are not really built to last. Not suprisingly,he gets a lot of fault repair orders these days

So anyway word of advice is from all this, is dunt get cheap ext casings, cuz u may never know, i was using this casing for more than 2 years already. Be always prepared for data loss, you may be lucky that your HDD may last 10 years or it may not, but always use stuff like NAS with raid1 or do data mirroring on a backup HDD if you really value your data
Cheers

This post has been edited by beatlesalbum: Oct 15 2008, 12:10 PM

Do BT kill your HDD?how about direct download?any prove?if we dont download what else to do??????

BT indirectly kills your HDD because of excessive read and write cycles. I wouldnt say that IT WILL kill, but it will shorten its lifespan because all HDD has a life cycle.

That's why I use cheapest available HDD for safety purpose when torrenting...anyway does OCing ur cpu and ram affects your HDD??

LoL, no way i think unless the excess heat from all your OC is being blown onto the HDD. In fact OCing you RAM and CPU means faster computation of program strings and scripts and also RAM availability meaning less need to access your HDD read write cycles. Still keep safe and mirror your data or use a fileserver or NAS for backup. Investing 1000 bucks(or less) in a NAS would give you a peaceful state of mind with regards to your data safety.
Cheers

ohhh...just know.
torrenting broke the hdd.
good discusion..go on..

can hdd be oc its rpm??

i bought my 120gb 2.5" samsung about 6 months ago, and now it shows this on every boot up at the bios:

1720-SMART Hard Drive detects imminent failure (failing attr : 01)

really kanasai la... it's not cheap WEHHHHHHHHH

does the warranty can cover up this dead HDD?

my seagate barracuda died when i transfer it to my new rig... haaaaaih...

My hard disk has 24 Raw Read Error Rate from the SMART value obtained from SpeedFan.

Is this a sign of bad sectors in my HDD. When I used CHKDSK to scan my partition, sometimes there errors and sometimes windows will just say that it has finished checking without any probs.

Yeah MDR. I also have sent my hardisk over there for data recovery. For me they offer the best price for us home users . The problem i had was because of the hardisk temperature rise too high (overheating) causing it to automatically stop function. Upon inspection they conclude that the chipset which control the temperature reading were faulty. They said the reason of this happening was because of short circuit from unstable power source. So my advice for all, always use AVR (Automatic Voltage Regulator) to connect your pc to the power source.

This post has been edited by nTHx: Nov 6 2008, 04:16 PM

My hard disk seems to produce a grinding kind of sound at times. When that happens, my Firefox will get locked up for 3-5 seconds that return to normal again. My windows explorer also seems to slow down/lag when that happens.

Is it a sign of a dying HDD? My hard disk is only about 2 years old.
When I perform like disk scan on my hard disk, the performance will deteriorate even further. While performing the scan, the grinding noises get more frequent and my Firefox tends to lock up more while browsing.

The grinding sound is the kind of sound when the hard disk is seeking stuff from the drive but its continuous and really loud too.

This post has been edited by raptor_cZn: Nov 7 2008, 08:33 PM

What if the HDD was submersed with water and was dried out for at least 5 days. It is going to work after all the process?

Found out that the problem had something to do with Firefox 3 reading and writing too much to the disk cache.

throw into the river

guys, for MDR... i sent in my Seagate Bara 500GB for recovery, but they spend days to verify ... but they failed to recover for me and sent it back to me FOC... really good service and professional

So now can anyone suggest what should i do with my HDD since it is warranty void ?

1. Throw it high from 13th Floor
2. Burn it with fire
3. Throw it into the lake
4. Slam it with a hammer

I will upload the video once i did any of the above