Joe

My hard drive failed on my laptop this morning and it wouldn't boot. I
tried to put it into an external enclosure but it wouldn't show up on
the MY Computer folder. I tried another hard drive and it showed up so
the connection and the enclosure are working properly. Is there any
other way I can get my hard drive to show up as a drive on My Computer
or is the hard drive fried?

Gordon

"Joe" <joe5345@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> My hard drive failed on my laptop this morning and it wouldn't boot. I
> tried to put it into an external enclosure but it wouldn't show up on
> the MY Computer folder. I tried another hard drive and it showed up so
> the connection and the enclosure are working properly. Is there any
> other way I can get my hard drive to show up as a drive on My Computer
> or is the hard drive fried?
>


What part of "failed" means "it's still working"?

Joe

On Jul 16, 12:56 pm, "Gordon" <gbpli...@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
> "Joe" <joe5...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1184604680.350654.90050@g4g2000hsf.googlegrou ps.com...
>
> > My hard drive failed on my laptop this morning and it wouldn't boot. I
> > tried to put it into an external enclosure but it wouldn't show up on
> > the MY Computer folder. I tried another hard drive and it showed up so
> > the connection and the enclosure are working properly. Is there any
> > other way I can get my hard drive to show up as a drive on My Computer
> > or is the hard drive fried?
>
> What part of "failed" means "it's still working"?


so if it's shot it's shot? I just figured maybe if I plugged it into
the computer I could get to some of the files I've yet to back up, no
dice huh?

Shenan Stanley

Joe wrote:
> On Jul 16, 12:56 pm, "Gordon" <gbpli...@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>> "Joe" <joe5...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1184604680.350654.90050@g4g2000hsf.googlegrou ps.com...
>>
>>> My hard drive failed on my laptop this morning and it wouldn't
>>> boot. I tried to put it into an external enclosure but it
>>> wouldn't show up on the MY Computer folder. I tried another hard
>>> drive and it showed up so the connection and the enclosure are
>>> working properly. Is there any other way I can get my hard drive
>>> to show up as a drive on My Computer or is the hard drive fried?
>>
>> What part of "failed" means "it's still working"?
>
>
> so if it's shot it's shot? I just figured maybe if I plugged it into
> the computer I could get to some of the files I've yet to back up,
> no dice huh?

Depends on *how* it failed.

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Joe

On Jul 16, 2:12 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> > On Jul 16, 12:56 pm, "Gordon" <gbpli...@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
> >> "Joe" <joe5...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >>news:1184604680.350654.90050@g4g2000hsf.googlegr oups.com...
>
> >>> My hard drive failed on my laptop this morning and it wouldn't
> >>> boot. I tried to put it into an external enclosure but it
> >>> wouldn't show up on the MY Computer folder. I tried another hard
> >>> drive and it showed up so the connection and the enclosure are
> >>> working properly. Is there any other way I can get my hard drive
> >>> to show up as a drive on My Computer or is the hard drive fried?
>
> >> What part of "failed" means "it's still working"?
>
> > so if it's shot it's shot? I just figured maybe if I plugged it into
> > the computer I could get to some of the files I've yet to back up,
> > no dice huh?
>
> Depends on *how* it failed.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


a friend thinks it may have been a power surge because it wasn't
giving me problems before this morning. When I plug it into the
external enclosure it clicks madly and doesn't show up as a drive. Is
there anywhere I can bring it where they can extract the information
through some more sophisticated means?

Shenan Stanley

Joe wrote:
> a friend thinks it may have been a power surge because it wasn't
> giving me problems before this morning. When I plug it into the
> external enclosure it clicks madly and doesn't show up as a drive.
> Is there anywhere I can bring it where they can extract the
> information through some more sophisticated means?

'clicks madly'...
Dead.

You could likely get the data recovered at some data recovery house for
$1000+ or with luck from someone who does the drop and plug in method and
quickly gets your data off. heh

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Joe

On Jul 16, 2:44 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> > a friend thinks it may have been a power surge because it wasn't
> > giving me problems before this morning. When I plug it into the
> > external enclosure it clicks madly and doesn't show up as adrive.
> > Is there anywhere I can bring it where they can extract the
> > information through some more sophisticated means?
>
> 'clicks madly'...
> Dead.
>
> You could likely get the data recovered at some data recovery house for
> $1000+ or with luck from someone who does the drop and plug in method and
> quickly gets your data off. heh
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


Ok it's dead. I've gone through the 7 stages. Now what do I do with
the hard drive? should I just throw it out? How can I be sure someone
with great skills and bad motives won't find it and get to my personal
data. If I wave a magnet over it will that be sufficient to dump the
data?

Bob I

Joe wrote:

> On Jul 16, 2:44 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Joe wrote:
>>
>>>a friend thinks it may have been a power surge because it wasn't
>>>giving me problems before this morning. When I plug it into the
>>>external enclosure it clicks madly and doesn't show up as adrive.
>>>Is there anywhere I can bring it where they can extract the
>>>information through some more sophisticated means?
>>
>>'clicks madly'...
>>Dead.
>>
>>You could likely get the data recovered at some data recovery house for
>>$1000+ or with luck from someone who does the drop and plug in method and
>>quickly gets your data off. heh
>>
>>--
>>Shenan Stanley
>> MS-MVP
>>--
>>How To Ask Questions The Smart Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>
> Ok it's dead. I've gone through the 7 stages. Now what do I do with
> the hard drive? should I just throw it out? How can I be sure someone
> with great skills and bad motives won't find it and get to my personal
> data. If I wave a magnet over it will that be sufficient to dump the
> data?
>

Opening it with a hammer will preclude any successful data recovery.

Joe

On Jul 16, 5:29 pm, Bob I <bire...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> > On Jul 16, 2:44 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>Joe wrote:
>
> >>>a friend thinks it may have been a power surge because it wasn't
> >>>giving me problems before this morning. When I plug it into the
> >>>external enclosure it clicks madly and doesn't show up as adrive.
> >>>Is there anywhere I can bring it where they can extract the
> >>>information through some more sophisticated means?
>
> >>'clicks madly'...
> >>Dead.
>
> >>You could likely get the data recovered at some data recovery house for
> >>$1000+ or with luck from someone who does the drop and plug in method and
> >>quickly gets your data off. heh
>
> >>--
> >>Shenan Stanley
> >> MS-MVP
> >>--
> >>How To Ask Questions The Smart Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> > Ok it's dead. I've gone through the 7 stages. Now what do I do with
> > the hard drive? should I just throw it out? How can I be sure someone
> > with great skills and bad motives won't find it and get to my personal
> > data. If I wave a magnet over it will that be sufficient to dump the
> > data?
>
> Opening it with a hammer will preclude any successful data recovery.

Unfortunately the computer is not mine, it's a company computer but I
do not know what they are going to do with the hard drive/computer
once I send it back to them. For all I know they will sell it to some
third party and end up on ebay. I cannot get to the hard drive, it's
corrupt so the best I can think is to place a large magnet on it for a
night.