Well, after my previous entry, BSOD & NTLDR Is Missing, I turned on my monitor this morning and there’s that blue screen again and my hard drive magically disappeared. Now, I know I did not bump my case since then, so it can’t be that a cable is loose. But, I open up my case, push the cables in, start up and there’s my hard drive.

Maybe it’s the cable? Maybe it’s the hard drive? I don’t know yet, because my hard drive started clicking and then Windows locked up and displayed a blue screen. There was no file on the blue screen this time. I decided to not start Windows back up again, because that’s the second time I’ve heard this clicking and I read somewhere that you could possibly lose any chance of backing up files. Although, maybe that’s their way of getting new customers.

The only files that are important to me right now on that hard drive are my e-mails. I haven’t had a chance to export them.

There are a couple of blog entries over at Geeks Are Sexy that discuss recovering files if your hard drive has failed. I don’t know if I would ever try this unless I was really sure (told by an expert) that my hard drive doesn’t have a chance of recovering files any other way. Supposedly, if no other method of recovering files works and you really need those files, putting your hard drive in the freezer gives you a few minutes. From what I’ve read, it doesn’t seem to give you long enough unless you only have just a few files to backup. This may not work for everyone.

Note: Geeks Are Sexy moved to www.geeksaresexy.net, the entries above are on the old blog.