Our PC Snuffed It

[WildGoose]

upon startup it now makes continual intermittant clunking noise, the clunking noise you normally associated with when a PC shuts down and a certain thing stops spinning, the hard drive?

seems to recognise the hard drive, states the name of it etc, but cant boot the system, just says error, and i got a blue screen a few times as well, which is the first one ive seen in years

very much like a fictional robot shutting down clunking noise, if you get what i mean, short of making a sound recording i can't explain it any better than that

however, it was an old PC and we were both waiting for it to give up
my question is this, who do you see about the possibility of recovering hard drive data

before anyone starts off on the soap box about regular backups, i have 120 GB backed up on my external hard drive which is damn near all the important stuff, and that in turn is backed up on another external hard drive that is never used, kind of a DIY raid

we just lost a collection of photos, handful of music and a few other useful bits that would be nice to get back if its possible

cheers for any thoughts

on the plus side, it has given me the excuse to connect my kick arse system to the internet in its place, so i can now play half life 2, battlefield, and associated modern online delights
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[EuropeanNC30R...]

I'd first have a look at sticking the HD into your better pc, then seeing how much data you can see from there.