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Microsoft Master
By Microsoft Master
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Well tonight I am dealing with a tragic moment, my 500gb Western Digital drive gave up the ghost, after I turned it on after a dust cleaning, I have tried everything including clearing cmos, and attempting to get it recognized on another device, anyone know of a cheap recovery specialist, I am a teenager and don’t have a lot of money lying around, and I need this drive back desperately. 

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Also I did call drive savers and they said listen to the device, and I can hear a whining noise, just the device is not being recognized, and I can definitely not afford their prices. 

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2 minutes ago, Microsoft Master said:

I can hear a whining noise

Probably a "coil whine" from an inductor.

 

Inspect the pins of the drive,make sure nothing shorts them,

And drive savers exploit their customers with outrages pricing,but at least they do a good job...

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5 minutes ago, Vishera said:

Probably a "coil whine" from an inductor.

 

Inspect the pins of the drive,make sure nothing shorts them,

And drive savers exploit their customers with outrages pricing,but at least they do a good job...

I don’t know what happend I was cleaning it and it booted, and as I was putting my side panel on it gave up the ghost and froze

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32 minutes ago, Microsoft Master said:

I don’t know what happend I was cleaning it and it booted, and as I was putting my side panel on it gave up the ghost and froze

does it show up in the bios?

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8 hours ago, TylerDurden! said:

do you have a usb sata dock?

Yes, attempting to recover now

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6 hours ago, Microsoft Master said:

Yes, attempting to recover now

r-studio works pretty good for recovering stuff and they have a free/home version

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