{"id":3913,"date":"2011-03-04T11:36:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T19:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2011-03-05T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T05:42:00","slug":"another-hard-drive-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/04\/another-hard-drive-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Hard Drive Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hard drive on Charlotte’s computer died this week. She had barely turned the computer on in a year so it was quite a surprise. Here’s what happened:<\/p>\n

Last week I copied a pile of pictures to the computer<\/p>\n

I ran Windows Update during a shutdown on it. It ran for quite a while with 20 updates. Mid-way through, some of the updates failed with odd messages. It said it couldn’t save the files correctly or something. I clicked through this message maybe 5 times over the course of an hour. I left the house. When I came back, the computer finally shut itself off.<\/p>\n

When I turned it back on after the updates… sadness!
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Windows wouldn’t start. :-(<\/p>\n

So I got out my Spinrite. It ran for about two hours. There were several spots where it enabled it’s fancy Dynastat process. The computer’s speaker clicked insistently for a while indicating it was trying to recover individual bits on the hard drive.<\/p>\n

I then powered up the computer and, hurray, Windows started! The hard drive sounded a little funny so I turned on my audio recorder. 2 minutes in, the hard drive started making awful awful awful sounds! I powered off, saddened.<\/p>\n

Listen to \u00a0bad hard drive sounds<\/a> and cringe!<\/p>\n

So I rebooted. This time with Safe Mode on. It made the same sounds after a minute.<\/p>\n

I got to thinking…. the bearing has gone bad… probably the bottom bearing… what might allow me to read the drive for just a little while…. Tada!
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I’ve been running the computer on its side for an hour, grabbing backups.<\/p>\n

Phew.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: I got all the files :-). I turned off the computer and back on again about 30 minutes later. The BIOS asked if I wanted to boot from the network! In other words, it didn’t see the hard drive AT ALL. I fear the hard drive is now officially dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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