urgant hard drive fault!

hi i was using one of my pcs last night, just burning a cd and after that
browsing the web when suddenly i heard my hard drive give way and it made a
really weird nise like a cd skipping or a funny clanging noise, i kept on
using the pc to see what happened and every time i did any thing on the pc a
blue screen came up saying cannon write to C: drive (hard drive) i wasnt out
of space it just didnt work. i opened up my pc tried putting on the pc and
the hard drive made the funny noise again and the pc couldt find the hard
drive it was a phyisical problem with it.

has anybody had this experience and knows what to do without loosing all
that preciouse information on the drive? is it a good idea to open it? i
have and i still cant find the problem, havent opened it entirely becasue
one of the screws is totally different and i cant find a screw bit for it

Don't try to open the hard drive. If you have not backed up your data then
your only option is to send the drive off to a data recovery place and maybe
they can save it for you.

Hard drives die. They usually last about five years. Some last longer,
some less. This is why I backup all the data on my pc that I cannot afford
to lose. I burn it to a cd. It's easy.

Dave


"Sameer" <sameerak47.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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 > hi i was using one of my pcs last night, just burning a cd and after that
 > browsing the web when suddenly i heard my hard drive give way and it made
a
 > really weird nise like a cd skipping or a funny clanging noise, i kept on
 > using the pc to see what happened and every time i did any thing on the pc
a
 > blue screen came up saying cannon write to C: drive (hard drive) i wasnt
out
 > of space it just didnt work. i opened up my pc tried putting on the pc and
 > the hard drive made the funny noise again and the pc couldt find the hard
 > drive it was a phyisical problem with it.
 >
 > has anybody had this experience and knows what to do without loosing all
 > that preciouse information on the drive? is it a good idea to open it? i
 > have and i still cant find the problem, havent opened it entirely becasue
 > one of the screws is totally different and i cant find a screw bit for it
 >
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