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Dead Hard Drive, No Warranty. What now?

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The title says it all. I have a 1TB HDD that no longer works on any computer i test it on and it has no warranty anymore. It would be nice if i could send it back to western digital to have them fix it for a small fee but i don't think that's the way it works.

Any help is appreciated.

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If you have any important data on it you should contact WD and try and get it fixed. If not you should buy another hard drive and and an SSD

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Well the only thing you can do is try to recover the data and get it on a new HDD. If you can't recover the data on it then I hope you have backups for family things...

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There is no important data on the drive. So now that the drive has stopped working it's trash? That seems a little stupid. We have no clue what went wrong for all we know it could be something simple.

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You can try and recover the data, but it isn't easy, and data recovery services are extremely expensive (talking thousands of dollars, unless its vital work related things, this usually isn't an option for someone).

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There is no important data on the drive. I wan't it fixed for the sake of having a 1TB HDD apposed to a piece of metal that is considered worthless broken trash. Of course i'm not going to spend more money to fix it than it would cost to produce one new but if that's the case then there is something seriously wrong with the way things work.

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There is no important data on the drive. So now that the drive has stopped working it's trash? That seems a little stupid. We have no clue what went wrong for all we know it could be something simple.

Well yes its trash, at least recyclable trash. I have a box full of dead drives or drives that have so many bad sectors its not worth using them anymore. You can still try to use it if it will spin up and format, just don't go thinking it will last long. Then I do use drives with many bad sectors for testing where I don't care if it dies.

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Sell it on eBay and you'll still get some money for it, explain the problem and set an auction.

If you have drives that still work but have to many bad sectors, sell the PCB on eBay, sell shipping weight.

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I'd take it apart and torture it, like I do with my busted hard drives that don't pass the seek test anymore. Pretty much worthless now. should see if they are still using glass platters like them IBM deskstars :P

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Before you render this drive completely dead, download an Ubuntu Live CD and burn it to a disk, Boot from the Disk and see if that will recognize drive, Ubuntu (Just about any Linux Distro) will over power Windows in about any way, except for playing games, So give my idea a shot and let me know, You could also get a USB Image and use that,

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Enter my contest to win another free drive!

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