HD makes weird noise and pc doesn't boot

Well, I have this Maxtor HD and I wonder if it's lost, along with
all the important data I have on it.

So here's what happens; on boot up, the disk seems
to activate. Then I hear this weird noise, something
sounding like "STACK!", and my pc won't boot up.

I've tried to put my HD in another computer as a slave HD, but
it isn't recognized; with the HD in slave mode, the PC
boots but access to filesystem is unbelievably slow
and still the filesystem won't see the drive at all.

In both cases, I cannot hear the classic "frying pan" noise.

Do you think my data is forever gone? Is there something
I can do/test before considering a data rescue by professionals?

EgregioSignore wrote:

> Well, I have this Maxtor HD and I wonder if it's lost, along with
> all the important data I have on it.
>
> So here's what happens; on boot up, the disk seems
> to activate. Then I hear this weird noise, something
> sounding like "STACK!", and my pc won't boot up.
>
> I've tried to put my HD in another computer as a slave HD, but
> it isn't recognized; with the HD in slave mode, the PC
> boots but access to filesystem is unbelievably slow
> and still the filesystem won't see the drive at all.
>
> In both cases, I cannot hear the classic "frying pan" noise.
>
> Do you think my data is forever gone? Is there something
> I can do/test before considering a data rescue by professionals?

If you cant get a pc to even recognise the drive, its toast. Just
recover your data from your backups. You do have backups? Only the
slow dont these days.


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