My dead hard drive story

Actually, controller failure and motor failure are the top two causes of drive failure. I've rescued two drives by replacing the controller board, but motor failure is almost always fatal. You can use a volt meter on the motor leads to see if there's any power to the motor. One one... more

Reviewed by Codebender Aug 08 2005, 06:01pm ( 209 reviews ) • deadharddrive.com

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Rated by debious on Oct 22, 11:39pm

An epic tale of a boy and his hard drive. Moral: always back stuff up!
Rated by insyen on Sep 18, 3:28am

sad hard drive story
Rated by JaykGrey on Aug 29, 11:37am

yay 80 gigs of storage. -- jeez maybe you should just back up your stuff, eh?
Rated by cubixel on Jun 20, 2:36am

Try backing up, if you had you could have just bought a new one with more space and restored your backup on it. Same difference, easier and possibly quicker, who knows maybe it's cheaper.
Rated by Serinadruid on May 10 2009, 9:29pm

I Geeks
Rated by 4udiary on Apr 29 2009, 10:53pm

wow.. step by step DIY
Rated by internetisscary on Apr 07 2009, 9:27pm

From the page: "How I fritzed my hard drive I went away on holidays for 2 weeks, came home, turned on my PC and after about 10 seconds, heard some electrical fizzing. Ack!"
Rated by Aderie on Mar 31 2009, 8:01am

How to resurrect your dead hard drive, the geeky way. This is rather impressive. Apparently the guy himself was impressed too, as he dedicated an entire domain for this article...

Installing is Easy!