The harddrive has crashed very hard to fix give it to a professional to fix if not its already condemned
SOURCE: pc hard drive
Yes, that correct you can just need to take the hard drive from your desktop and get a external hard drive ecnlosure where you need to put the hard drive and connect it to your laptop via USB cable, check this link for the sampole of the hard drive enclosure that you need to buy http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=2777&name=Hard-Drive-Enclosure
Hope that helps.........
SOURCE: External Hard Drive not being recognized (A little different)
IOMagic has become notorious for some faulty power supplies in the past. If you've got it on your internal bus now and it's still not working, you're in trouble.
It all depends on the noise it's making. I've got an IOMagic 500G that's ticking away like crazy right now. The platter doesn't spin up though. Put your ear to it when you start your computer to see. If I give mine a quick twist I can get put a little inertia into the platters to help the motor overcome the standing friction and then it works until it powers down and stops spinning.
I've had others fail where the arm, with the read/write head on it, goes out to read the platter and the alignment is off, whether it's by impact or age or whatever, and you hear the arm go out, then there's a tick tick tick and then it parks itself and tries again. This is a really bad sign.
Some people have suggested freezing the drive. The cold changes the alignment for a while and you can maybe get it to read those first few sectors and then it's relatively fine for a while.
Some people have suggested buying an identical drive, exact same serial, to replace the external pcb incase the electronics have fried. This is not so likely but worth a shot, especially if you've got an old drive and a replacement is cheap.
There are a few other things but it gets more severe from here.
Advice: anything above that you do to it will void the waranty and will likely speed up decline of the drive.
If you get it to spin up and read, start imaging the drive to another drive right away and cross your fingers. It may never read again after that. Hope that you get it all before it kicks the bucket.
Make sure you image to another drive that is bigger. I've had an image of a 500G drive take over 3 days to complete only to fail because it didn't have enough room to close the control file. I was short a couple of kb on the destination drive. I was away when the fail happened and the drive powered itself down. I could never get it to read again. I was lucky enough to manually edit the control file and got almost all of my data back.
If your data is irreplaceable, and means the world to you, then your only real option is to take it to a data recovery company. They will remove the platters in a clean room and make an image to work from if they can't get it to work otherwise. This is of course very expensive. No one likes to hear it though. If you start messing with it first you may severely limit their chances for successful recovery.
If you simply can't afford it then try everything you can.
I've had drives not read for months and then I throw them in an enclosure just for kicks and the temp is just right or something, you never know, and they read long enough to get the info off.
Good luck.
"data doesn't exist unless it's in 3 different places", words to compute by.
SOURCE: windows 7 can't see IDE hard drive using I/O Magic
Use your old machine to transfer the data you need to the external drive or dvds then insert them to new machine
Also what operating system is the old drive info thanks
Have you tried to access this drive with out i/o Magic?
I have had good success retrieving data from almost evey drive I have come into contact with,ie,IDE and SATA,
those I can not access I have given back to the owners and told them to buy another drive,
If the data is important then I will take the next step and suggest a good reputable recovery company,bearing in mind the recovery process is long and expensive
Consider this for a moment,
new computer cost approx $1000.New
Data Extraction for bussiness could be $2000+
Is the data really worth it?
MISTERDJ
SOURCE: computer won't recognize hard drive anymore
The clicking sounds and lack of response makes this sound like a dying hard drive to me, sorry to say.
I would try it on another computer if possible.
There are data retrieval experts but they tend to be expensive, files need to be quite important to make this worthwhile.
SOURCE: Computer is not recognizing my external hard drive
If the light won't blink, there could be problem with the power source. Do scanning hardisk for errors manually ( take off the hardisk from the case, assemble it on other PC Desktop)
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