Musings of a technophile

So I recently had a friend read my blog post about recovering a hard drive while he was going through my site. He had a drive that had died and it wouldn’t even POST in the BIOS. Apparently after reading my post he decided to give the freezer trick a try. He tested the drive before freezing it and sure enough it still did not POST. He put it… Continue reading

So my wife’s hard drive started having the “infamous” clicking noise a couple weeks ago. I say “infamous” because I’ve bought about 7 IBM Hitachi hard drives over the last seven years and EVERY SINGLE ONE has gone bad, with the same clicking noise.  You can use the Hitachi drive repair tool to fix it (I believe it just writes zero’s to the drive) but you lose all your data… Continue reading