I think it is, but the drive installed windows okay, and all his music is on his ipod, he is just missing his old school docs, which he will now be saving on flashdrives (he had no backup previously) and he should be getting a new laptop soon
I think it is, but the drive installed windows okay, and all his music is on his ipod, he is just missing his old school docs, which he will now be saving on flashdrives (he had no backup previously) and he should be getting a new laptop soon
Not dead yet
Since the drive is working now I'm gonna say that the drive probably did not overheat (you have have to be seriously trying to overheat a HDD), but instead something froze/hung/royally screwed up in some other way during the defrag process. You said it was hung when you got back to it and you power-cycled it? Either something broke in the defrag utility or it was just really slow in responding and something got lost/misplaced when you power-cycled it.
TBCS 5TB Club :: coilgun :: bench PSU :: mightyMite :: Zeus :: E15 Magna EVThat we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
--Benjamin Franklin
...well that's...uhm...weird. Yeah, I'm gonna stick with the 'something got lost when it powercycled' theory. The defragger is not supposed to restart the computer, so something else must have decided it needed to reboot (Windows does that sometimes ) or some bsod/etc failure made it reboot...either way, this is a great example of why rebooting in the middle of a defrag is a bad idea.
I'm curious; what tools did your friend use to try and get data off it? The fact that it was trying to boot at all means that the filesystem was still intact, and even if that weren't the case, no more than one or two files should have been garbled at all, and none that . You should have been able to pull the files off with a data recovery tool.
TBCS 5TB Club :: coilgun :: bench PSU :: mightyMite :: Zeus :: E15 Magna EVThat we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
--Benjamin Franklin
I love the smell of dying hard drives in the morning.. or afternoon. Any time really.. I love the challenge of data recovery!
\m/ d(-_-)b \m/
R9 290X+Kraken+Corsair H90, Xeon 5649@4ghz, Asus P6T-WS Pro
Arctic Cat * Maximum Security * Cribbage Board * Rockin Case * Armor Redux
Tempest SXR * Power House * Red Comet * ICHIWZ * Acrylic Headphone Hook
Continuing sponsorship support from PCBoard.ca