The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives

zzptichka sends along a link to recordings of typical sounds from 35 different failing and dying hard drives. The host of these sounds, Datacent, is in the business of data recovery, so presumably they have heard it all.

That Click!

[denmarkw00t]

I've heard it one too many times, which is >= 1 times. I pretty much give up at that point - once the click starts, your drive quickly begins to stop :(

DIY Data Recovery for Broken HDDs

[wehe]

Just in case you don't want or don't need to order data recovery from a professional service, which is often expensive and takes time, here are some do-it-yourself guides for data recovery from broken hard disk drives [repair4harddisk.org]. Of course you will not try these approaches if your data are really precious. But it you can afford to loose the data or you don't want to reveal them to others, these guides are worth a try to get the data resurrected.

Re:But you can't dance to it

[Anonymous Coward]

Get yourself a nice little present and install "FlashGot". It is a FireFox plugin and it will download whatever you like, including Flash and embedded media.

Re:Ring tone one is awesome

[QuantumG]

Uhh.. actually you should have booted up off the CD, selected "recovery console" and then run chkdsk /f c:

Re:Worst Yanni album

[Anonymous Coward]

You have never listened to a Yanni album before have you?

Re:But you can't dance to it

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice variety of sounds, but totally inaccessible. I give it a D."

Dude, you're not Slashdot material if you didn't check the page source. The URLs [datacent.com] are right there!

Torrent

[Anonymous Coward]

It's badly slashdotted, and annoyingly wrapped in Flash, so I scraped out the MP3s and put them in a torrent (2MB). It's at http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4504421 [thepiratebay.org]. Enjoy!