I think my hard drive is dying

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And I did not back up my pictures, video and audio files. :(

Yesterday morning I booted up my pc, I noticed something strange when I received a message saying Windows genuine advantage failed to load later the computer froze up and I got the blue screen of death. I tried to start it up several times but I got different error messages. Sometimes it tells me there is no hard drive detected or it freezes up on the Windows XP screen and then goes to a black screen with two option press F1 or F2 no drive detected. If I let the pc rest for a bit sometimes I can get it to start up but it freezes up after a very short time. I tried to run the Windows disk check but it could not finish I got the blue screen of death around step 4. I hear a clicking sound when the pc freezes up.

Is there a way I can save my data? It is a 40 gb IDE hard drive to me it is not worth it to pay a lot of money to a data recovery service. If possible I would like to save the data myself.
 
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Go to the local FBI branch and tell them you found child pornography on it. It will be up and running in 7 minutes.
 
Ah - that's a bummer. Make sure you didn't mess up the Slave and Master with your IDE HDD. This happened to me and I recovered my HDD with some free software (or was it "free" I don't remember), I could find out where you can get it if nobody else has a better idea.

Also, the PC section works best for PC help. There is a lot more compitent pc people there.
 
[quote name='Magehart']Go to the local FBI branch and tell them you found child pornography on it. It will be up and running in 7 minutes.[/quote]



xD This!
 
[quote name='DarkNessBear']Ah - that's a bummer. Make sure you didn't mess up the Slave and Master with your IDE HDD. This happened to me and I recovered my HDD with some free software (or was it "free" I don't remember), I could find out where you can get it if nobody else has a better idea.[/Quote]

Yes please.

Also, the PC section works best for PC help. There is a lot more compitent pc people there.
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Thanks a lot.

I had not seen the PC forum before you pointed it out. I will put this post up on that board.
 
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