specialnogo (August 19, 2008 at 8:27 pm)

same problem here. Sometimes the drive is dected others its not and the same happens on other computers. it stoped working

LemonAndYoghurt (August 12, 2008 at 4:35 pm)

Does anyone know? I have a samsung 500GB drive in a external casing, last week I powered this hd on, and I heard a very loud screeeech! noise. Does anyone know what that couldve been and why that is? I think hd's park the heads when shut down. this harddrive is in external casing, and when my windows shuts down the pc, I have to manualy shut down this disk. But I guess it heads will parkd like the rest of the internal drives i guess when I shut it down manualy, can any1 can confirm?

raunchbear (August 5, 2008 at 8:12 am)

Please, everyone knows this stuff. I've done this at least 6 times. I could do pretty much anyting with a PC. RAM, no problem. I can even overclock it.

zaidynkaen (July 29, 2008 at 5:03 am)

Your only option to recover data from a broken hard drive is to send it a a costly data recovery business (hundreds of dollars or more). To avoid this, make regular backups of all important files to an external HDD, and mroe extra redunancy, to DVDs.

patricknedz (July 15, 2008 at 9:25 pm)

if my PC crashes can I recover it the data on it or just get it fixed with it formated?

ubuntututorials (July 7, 2008 at 5:16 pm)

Hibernate actually is off. The computer has saved the data to the HDD. Anyways it's F8 you should be able to remove the hibernation info and you'll be able to restart.

benjie164 (May 18, 2008 at 9:04 am)

Clap 3 times, spin around and say the person you want to be with forever, post this on 7 pages. On this Saturday that person will realize how much you mean to them... you don't do this... that person will think the opposite and never want to see your face again! It worked for me, just try!!! Next

yurt101 (May 1, 2008 at 1:49 am)

your not suppose to take it appart while its on... its a bit risky to take it apart in the first place lmao

bababijan (March 31, 2008 at 3:38 am)

Buy a new 500 GB HD and label it as HD C, then format it as your new HD C (Master). Shut down your pc, hook up your old HD as D (Slave). Make sure to set the jumpers correctly. Once again, boot up your pc in safe mode, your pc should recognizes your old HD as D. Try to copy the necessary files as soon as you can. If you succeed, then send me your old hard drive as my reward. Good luck.

bababijan (March 31, 2008 at 3:36 am)

ec3000, if you can still get the same message of "cant read data" because of a possible damage to your HD C, try to see if you can boot up your pc in safe mode. Once you are in safe mode, try to see if your pc recognizes your HD C? If it does, shut down your pc and remove your HD C. Make a label for it as HD D so you know it is the old one ...