Comments on: Transferring Files Between OSs from Failing Drives http://www.dearcali.com/transferring-files-between-oss-from-failing-drives/ Tech Questions Answered by a Girl Geek Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:06:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dan in Florida http://www.dearcali.com/transferring-files-between-oss-from-failing-drives/#comment-30 Dan in Florida Mon, 14 May 2007 14:40:15 +0000 http://www.dearcali.com/transferring-files-between-oss-from-failing-drives/#comment-30 You said that the pc shuts off randomly, which could be many anything, but the easiest to test is overheating. Open up the case and position a fan to blow on the internals and fire it up. Also make sure that none of the fans have come loose, or are blocked. This may buy you enough time to do what you need... if it's an overheating issue. If not, you at least get to poke around in the case. You said that the pc shuts off randomly, which could be many anything, but the easiest to test is overheating. Open up the case and position a fan to blow on the internals and fire it up. Also make sure that none of the fans have come loose, or are blocked. This may buy you enough time to do what you need… if it’s an overheating issue. If not, you at least get to poke around in the case.

]]> By: dave http://www.dearcali.com/transferring-files-between-oss-from-failing-drives/#comment-20 dave Sat, 12 May 2007 15:56:39 +0000 http://www.dearcali.com/transferring-files-between-oss-from-failing-drives/#comment-20 another option is to get a copy of spinrite. it may be able to fix the drive. the software is like a miracle pill for most people! chances are you'll be able to recover most if not ALL of your data and get it saved off to another drive. you just pop the cd into your drive and boot it up. if you have a tower machine it would be better to plug it directly into the motherboard, but spinrite will still work on external drives, just not as effectively. check it out at: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm -d another option is to get a copy of spinrite. it may be able to fix the drive. the software is like a miracle pill for most people! chances are you’ll be able to recover most if not ALL of your data and get it saved off to another drive.

you just pop the cd into your drive and boot it up. if you have a tower machine it would be better to plug it directly into the motherboard, but spinrite will still work on external drives, just not as effectively.

check it out at: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

-d

]]> By: crash http://www.dearcali.com/transferring-files-between-oss-from-failing-drives/#comment-12 crash Sat, 12 May 2007 08:56:58 +0000 http://www.dearcali.com/transferring-files-between-oss-from-failing-drives/#comment-12 Sometimes NTFS hard drives just don't like to show up right on macs or even pc's for that matter.there is some free software that allows you to extract data like MHDD has the ability to extract files(on a PC only haven't tested Intel macs). Now since it seems as if it is just having sector problems there is a program called NTFS explorer (http://www.runtime.org/diskexpl.htm) what allows you to bypass the bad sectors since its a bootable CD Also since it probably is NTFS since it was running windows then a Linux live CD some times will allow you to transfer data from the drive because it does not allow you to write to the drive what can also save the drive. http://myharddrivedied.com/ is a good site to go to if there are any files on there that you cant live with out but it is not cheep. the last resort if you want to get the data really bad and not enough to pay money. if it is making the dreaded Click of Death the freezer method by putting the drive in a ziplock bad and putting it in the freezer for about 15 minutes can allow you the amount of time needed to save the files since it contracts the metal on the drive allowing it to be accessed till it warms up but this is only a last resort because it can cause condensation to form on the drive and fry it all together. Sometimes NTFS hard drives just don’t like to show up right on macs or even pc’s for that matter.there is some free software that allows you to extract data like MHDD has the ability to extract files(on a PC only haven’t tested Intel macs).

Now since it seems as if it is just having sector problems there is a program called NTFS explorer (http://www.runtime.org/diskexpl.htm) what allows you to bypass the bad sectors since its a bootable CD

Also since it probably is NTFS since it was running windows then a Linux live CD some times will allow you to transfer data from the drive because it does not allow you to write to the drive what can also save the drive.

http://myharddrivedied.com/ is a good site to go to if there are any files on there that you cant live with out but it is not cheep.

the last resort if you want to get the data really bad and not enough to pay money. if it is making the dreaded Click of Death the freezer method by putting the drive in a ziplock bad and putting it in the freezer for about 15 minutes can allow you the amount of time needed to save the files since it contracts the metal on the drive allowing it to be accessed till it warms up but this is only a last resort because it can cause condensation to form on the drive and fry it all together.

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