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Mechanical HDD Failure ---HELP---

Ragin Cajun
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Hello & Good Evening All,

Start by saying I'm new to LTT, and well anything like this. Must say love the LTT channel.

On to serious business. My hard drive (I'm assuming) has failed catastrophically on my 10 yr old computer 😔. While it's nothing fancy or quit honestly a joke to most users on here, it's all that I have had and until now haven't had a reason to upgrade, or so I thought after seeing all that I have seen on here 🤣. Unfortunately due to laziness and stupidity, I have no backup, cloud, or anything. I have, or had, a lot of expensive programs that I have purchased through the years for my profession and academic purposes.

Any who, the computer will not boot whatsoever. Get a blue screen, that's it, just a blue screen. I have gotten over the fact that all is lost. Local computer techs wanna charge $700 to swap my hard drive. That's it. No O.S., no nothing. After seeing all that I have seen here on the LTT channels, I have developed severe trust issues 😑. 

So attached to this thread, are screen shots of the paper weight. Upgrade what I have or build something new? Now I don't game on it but I do a lot of high definition renderings of architectural elevations and what not.

All and any help of what to do would be awesome. Just try to keep the Computer Tech jarga to a minimum for I am not a tech.

Did price out some new hardware for the computer, came to roughly $600 without an O.S. Would I be able to do better for marginally more money than just upgrading what I currently have?

 

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Do you have anouther drive to copy data to?

 

If it bluescreens, the hdd is still somewhat ok, and running ddrescue will probalby get a good chunk of the data. 

 

Try a guide like this guy, and copy the files to the other hdd. Then recover data from the image. https://www.technibble.com/guide-using-ddrescue-recover-data/

 

 

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Just now, Ragin Cajun said:

I do have a 250GB portable external hdd. Doesn't seem like that would be enough to recover everything on my hdd is it?

Your gonna need a hdd that is bigger than the internal drive in the pc, so it looks like >1tb.

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