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MaverickUK · 11-30-2006, 06:51 AM

Taking the housing off the HDD is a no-no. There's only one solution to this problem; buy a new HDD. You may be able to recover the files once you have a new HDD but i'm pretty sure that the drive is no longer able to read or write to the disc platters. IF you're lucky enough, you may be able to read from the HDD and recover a few files.

I may be wrong on this one, but instinct tells me i'm correct. There may be ways to go around this, but if there is, i'm certainly no help.

11-30-2006, 06:51 AM	#2 (permalink)
MaverickUK Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cheshire, England. Posts: 879 OS: XP Home My System	Taking the housing off the HDD is a no-no. There's only one solution to this problem; buy a new HDD. You may be able to recover the files once you have a new HDD but i'm pretty sure that the drive is no longer able to read or write to the disc platters. IF you're lucky enough, you may be able to read from the HDD and recover a few files. I may be wrong on this one, but instinct tells me i'm correct. There may be ways to go around this, but if there is, i'm certainly no help. __________________ Currently studying: CompTIA A+ CompTIA N+ Cisco Certified Network Associate Last edited by MaverickUK; 11-30-2006 at 06:54 AM.