Judah Wrote:If you need data of them, and its hardware failure, you can grab a torx and take off the chipboard thing on the bottom, and swap with an identical drives board. It's sort of risky as I guess you could damage the perfectly good drive's board. But it work's I've done it lol. It wouldn't help you though if something internal has died though like the arm or the head. Also I think you can flash the BIOS on those 11's and perhaps fix them

Zorach Wrote:also i have backed up everything already was the first thing i did when i realised i was having boot problem

I was talking to P4 that time sorry bro

Yeah its always nice to know that your backups actually work.

One of the .11's that died on me the other day was a 500GB in a server, redirected some shortcuts to the backup, pulled it out and sent it away for replacement for a few weeks and the users didn't even notice the drive was missing 8)

So yeah, in theory you shouldn't need to try and repair a hard drive, because everyone should always have good backups in place. People rely way too much on computers to store important documents/photos.

Also, apparently, if your drive is having minor internal problems, you can stick it in a freezer for a while and then get data off it before it warms up again...

Was it a server drive or a desktop drive? The desktop ones aren't really intended to be run 24-7 like the server drives are

Yeah, it was a barracuda ES , but the same generation with the firmware problems.

and it was never meant to be a 5 9's drive, thats what the RAID 1 10k rpm SAS drives are for, but 500GB SAS drives get a bit pricey...

But regardless of your hard drive type, always have good backups.