The hard drive in the wife’s laptop up and died on us tonight. Just like that. It was working fine a few hours ago and then I put it in hibernate mode. She went to turn it back on and got nothing but a BSOD. The drive was making those characteristic clicking and whirring sounds of a dead hard drive, so it sounds like it’s time for a new one. Sadly, the last back up was from a few months ago just before Christmas, so there’s going to be some data loss.
Laptop drives are surprisingly cheap. Over at Newegg a 160GB drive can be had for $120. Surprising just how small these things are.
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Well you can always try to pick up an exterior HDD adapter and plug it in. Maybe, just maybe with some recovery software you can recover most of your data. I was able to get alot of data off one of my drivers when it died with the infamous click of death. It is worth a try, the enclosures only run about 25 bucks. let me know if you need some help with recovery software.