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I believe the technical term is it's 'fucked in the eye'

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MrPineapple .co.uk - TSHIRTS FOR SALE. I GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE., Mon 4 Aug 2008, 2:29, archived)

Well my harddrive was completely fucked and made a horrible whirring grindey sound if you tried to fire it up.

I basically took it out and smacked it repeatedly with my palm a few times, this somehow knocked whatever loose part was causing it not to spin properly and it lasted another three months before melting down again.

Also you can probably recover the data depending on what the issue is.

(Jeru War and Piss, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 2:31, archived)

I think it's properly dead.

Although I'd rather take another whack at it than let my Dad and his half arsed manner be the final say.

He doesn't have any HFS+ recovery stuff as far as I'm aware, and I'm not willing to pay for a program that might not even work, so I'm happy to leave it as a lost cause if I can't sort it soon. I've got a new drive on the way that's double the size, but it's just fucking inconvenient.

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MrPineapple .co.uk - TSHIRTS FOR SALE. I GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE., Mon 4 Aug 2008, 2:34, archived)

Places can just recover the data by physically taking the palattes out and reading them.

I have no idea how much it costs though.

(Jeru War and Piss, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 2:37, archived)

Apparently it costs thousands to get it done professionally.

My brother does a lot of recovery stuff, but with NTFS rather than HFS+, so I might need to wet his beak a bit.

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MrPineapple .co.uk - TSHIRTS FOR SALE. I GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE., Mon 4 Aug 2008, 2:40, archived)

Alternatively you can purchase the exact same harddrive off ebay, presuming its an older one.

Take the palattes out of old harddrive with data on, swap with new blank harddrive.

Of course this is sort of dependent on how easy harddrives are to take apart, and they aren't. Stupid magnets.

(Jeru War and Piss, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 2:44, archived)