NO. NO. NO...... real men don't do backups we just lay down and cry when the shit i dead

3:42 "If you're not tech savvy enough to find a few folders and copy them make a disk image" 10/10 flawless logic

i remember that day like it was yesterday all porn gone it was a sad day

My PC clicks 70% of the time for 4 years now. Still isn't dead, miracle?

I've been doing freelance IT for the last 8 years, and here are my tips. 1. Put a Ziplock bag with a little bit of water and ice on top of the drive. Make sure you put a paper towel (thinner the better) on top of the drive first in case the bag starts to condense. This has fixed infinitely clicking drives, extremely slow (50Kb-100Kb just the other day) drives, and simply ?? don't work drives (just once for me). On the flip side you can heat up the drive! that should ONLY be a last resort!!! as you can easily cause irreparable damage. 2. Make sure you know where the files you want to recover before you start. You don't want to find yourself with a dead drive half way through when you could have finished if you knew where they were. 3. If you make an image, make sure the program reads the old drive sequentially. "bit to bit" and don't change the partition sizes. 4. Sometimes using slower USB works better, USB 3.0 can possibly stress out the drive. And make sure its a quality USB adaptor. I've gone through my fair share of shit ones thinking they would get the job done.. NOPE! Vantec IMO make the best, S.M.A.R.T. works, and even on newer systems its seen as a Native UEFI drive (that caught me by surprise). And my 8+ year old one it still working like new. 5. You CAN repair bad sectors that S.M.A.R.T. and OS software can't recover (chkdisk for one)!! AND recover the corrupted DATA!! first make an image of the drive as stressing the drive can kill it. I use HDD Regenerator and its saved countless drives and files for me, what it simply does is if you remember old TVs when you would have magnet close to them? it would ruin the image right? and what did you do to fix it? air massage the same magnet! :/ I haven't found an alternative to that program but I'm guessing there might be. 6. The power supply might be messing with how the drive works. This is rare, but I've seen it a few times and would have to use an external power supply or just put it in a PC with a good PSU. 7. Use multiple recovery programs, they all work differently and will give you different results. Example; Program 1, will recover files A,B,C, but not D. Program 2 will recover files A,B,D and not C. Program 3!! A,E,F,G etc etc. Some will recover the file damaged and others will actually repair the damaged file, this is very important for corrupted photos. 8. I don't know anything else off the top of my head, and good luck!!

Didn't Linus's server die and didn't he lose a bunch of data?

My SSD is clicking, what should I do?

u are not saving a dying hard drive, u are saving only data... i was thinking to watch a video when linus open the hard drive and do something crazy to save it -.-

FYI you can shrink the partition before making the image, if the drive is defragged. depending on the defrag quality, this can save you a lot of space and/or you won't need as big of a target drive

I thought Linus was done with NCIX?

That was some good advice Linus, thanks. I have seven 1TB drives I've collected over the years and never had an issue. Problem is, they are all full and I don't know what I should do with all that data haha. Contemplating just leaving most of it and buy a couple drives to backup only the most important stuff. a good 70-80% of it is blu-ray movies so it isn't that bad if I lost it.

i had a dying hard drive with gameplay recordings on it. trying to transfer or back up the data normally made it just stop being recognized by the system until the next bootup. but i could still put the files into a video editor and render them. so i did that and rendered them onto a new drive. im not sure how that worked, but it did.

my 3TB HDD just got the click of death, i cried like my father died

You should have 4 backups 1: Keep a copy on the computer 2: Back up to an external HDD 3: Back up to a Bluray 4: Back up to the cloud

Heading: How to save your hard drive Video: How to backup your hard drive 🙌🙌🙌CLICK BAIT🙏🙏🙏

I remember the day when one of my hdd wen't to the big motherboard in the sky

I don't think you explicitly mentioned this anywhere Linus. Whichever method you decide to use, if it's your boot disk, hook it up to a different PC first so you don't boot from it. If not, your (sequential) backup will be intertwined with regular reads by the OS thus rendering the whole operation riskier than needed.

So I save all my videos/photos for work and personal on an external hard drive. I shoot 4K videos and photos so cannot store my files on my laptop. How do I back up my data? Do I back up my external hard drive on another external hard drive .... weeping because that's expensive

That click of death has haunted me for the last months, we both still live on

I need help.... 😭😭😭 one week ago when I start my computer it was showing a message a problem of hard drive has detected... i checked in internet and see my C drive was full of corrupted files and error files... do I ... scan it by chkdsk /f and agree to scan in next reboot.. i was taking too long to check error and unfortunately my niece shutdown my pc.. when I turn it on... nothing showing... expect .. harddisk error message.. i have formated that hdd by dban and installed win 10. when installation complete its showing error again.... hard drive can be fail at any time help me please 😭😭😭😭

well my ssd is dead so can i have a small loan of milion dollars

What to back up . #1-porn #2-csgo settings #3 - have i mentioned porn?

WOW seriously ! My hard drive just died this week, still clueless and depressed about it. Thanks NCIX tech tips! Hope this works!

Great tutorial....backing up files on a cloud based storage works great. Dupplica is a good one with almost limitless backup storage space options available.

I think the "I thought linus left" thing is becoming a troll.

This is what kinda sucks about SSDs. You get no warning at all if your SSD dies. There is software to monitor its health but if it just decides to die one day you're screwed. Ask me how I know.

Hello i need some tech advice, im building a new gaming pc and am hoping i can use the cpu of a computer we have lying around. The cpu is a Is an intel core 2 duo e8400 3.0 gtzh and am also planning to use the motherboard its with. Is it worth reusing it, or will it not perform well

Can't raw backup software compress the image prior recording it to the backup drive?

Simple, don't buy Seagate HDD's..

5:10 That expression! Yeah. Gotta make backups.

I love that everybody thinks Linus is gone and still the most popular NCIX videos are with Linus. Not trying to say something though, I love every one of the creators of this channel. They are all both professional and funny. Love this channel.

Will a tv work as a replacement for a monitor? cause i havent bougt a monitor but i build a rig and it dosent post, its not the rig cause its well assembles, neither the parts they all work, but I dont know if a monitor its requierd or if I need to do some type of type setup or setting changes. Please halp

All this talk of backups makes me realize how value-less my data is. If all my drives failed, I'd just have to re-download steam games.

my 13 years old HDD works great, 65,7GB!

ok does this cause the computer to start up very slow and not do anything at all? I have a 2009 emachine and it takes forever to start up and when it does what it needs to do...I open something up and it takes about a half hour to an hour to open something up. I started it in safe mode with networking and it did a little better at start up and opening stuff up. but it eventually frooze up completely. I just got through opening it up to clean out all the dust in it, and hope that does something. it was filled with dust just caked in it.

hey I've used backupper cloning program before when I needed to upgrade to a larger drive. would that work on a failing drive though??

never had a failed hdd. still got everything backuped about every 2 weeks.

TL:DR : How to save a dying hard drive step 1: save your dying hard drive. back your files. you're welcome.

My drive has now failed on my laptop. No hard drive files show up but I don’t have a constant clicking I get a sound like a wire snapping like a sharp ping every 10 minutes or so even if the laptop is off. Is this hdd dead?

My brand new laptop's WD Blue with SSD section clicks during start up, shall I take it back or is it fine?

had one HDD click for 2 months, and then went back to normal. I dont trust that HDD to not spontaneously blow up on me.

More like ''How to save the files of a dying hard drive''

I made an image on my Hardrive with a different mobo for a backup for a sysrep Now on a different mobo with the same Hardrive sysreped to it, I can't recover the image. Sysrep doesn't delete the files but it stores it somewhere else and I want my image to basically replicate everything I had with the Hardrive before it sysreped to this one with the new mobo. I used an external Hardrive to make the image. Does it have to be on the same mobo?

Hey linus, suppose that I wish to create a Mirror of an existing single Hard drive with 2 partitions (including system) is there a way I could create the mirror (including system) without having to reformat the system drive? Thanks

I have an interesting HDD here's the story: The HDD is runs and working fine and one day the HDD start to give clicking noises, freezes and more and more errors like bluescreen, not booting windows etc and later the HDD is finally unable to boot the Windows and the PC says: Disk boot failure. The interesting part is I unplug the HDD and don't use for a long time and one day I start using it again and working fine without any problems for a long time and start that things again, again. That happened many times. I really don't know what's going on with the HDD. :D. I currently on the state when I not using it, one day I check again. (That's gonna be interesting to see the old Windows.)

I put important stuff on an SSD so I don't lose anything CRUCIAL

Awesome videos guys!! Thank you so much!!

I bought a 1tb drive which is split into two 500 GB parts, for now I used one of these parts as a backup but is this a useful backup or is it junk because I mean it's still just on one hard drive. should I buy another drive for backup or is this OK

False bait click title. This isnt how to save a dying hard drive its how to save data on a dying hard drive. If a hard drive is dying there is no way to save it.

I've been using computers since 1997, and never saw any of my HDD dying. Nevertheless it's a constant fear in my mind, even with backups.

I use a program called Hard Disk Sentinel on all my systems. It constantly monitors the SMART data on the disks, and it tells me if any problems arise (High temp, an bad sector develops etc) It also has a bunch of other tools that I can use to give a hard drive tests, like sequential read, random read and even controls the drive's acoustical and power management (where supported)

I got a Seagate hdd not long ago, and it has this clicking sound when under load from day 1. Should i worry?

you dont give any solution

Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend.

My laptop hdd failed on me and refused to do anything anymore. A professional person business thingie said it'd cost about 700 euros to retrieve the data and even then there's no guarantee that it'll work. So, I'm screwed, right?

Once you have saved all your data and it turns out the drive is out of warranty, one thing you can do is disassemble the drive. Not only will you learn the inner working of the drive, you can reuse and recycle the parts. For example, the controller board can be resold online because people buy those when they have a controller failure instead of the header failure. The platter can be reused as a mirror as they are really polished and very reflective. The magnets can be reused for your refrig or experiments. The casing and other metal parts can be recycled. It is a fun project.

So I should back up my back up to a back up with another back up so my back ups are safe so I don't have to worry about backing up again if something fails because I'll have my back ups back upped?

I updated my Bios and my SSD is now in a frozen state after the update some how. Can i fix it or do i have to delete everything? I just have Windows installed and a few games.

Can you suggest me something, açtûålly I did a wrong thing I put my hard drive in freez for drop down temp , buy I forget after 1week I remember and make it outside then this circuit back some water there but I cleaned will it works, actually I don't want to take risk it doesn't have much water so that's my question

Your vid shows how to back up the drive or what kind of sounds it will make. I wanna know how to stop the HDD from losing health. I use hard disk sentinal and it showed my HDD lost some health. Is there a way to prevent that from happening? i dont have any imp data in this drive so i dont care if i lose it. I just wanna stop this drive from dying.

Lol in my new rig I am using a 250 gb WD hard drive from august 2006. Do you think I should get a new one?

my western digital 1tb has been giving random read/write errors for a while now, thing is over 8 years old and has had a 24-7 on settings for most years on average. but there's no OS or important data on it. so it's actually still very usable lol. any tips except for replacing? (the read/write errors mostly comes from downloading Steam games or updates, most other things work just fine.

very good useful tips THANKS.

If I make an image of my drive, can I just use winrar to move the files from the .img file to a folder on another drive (to save the whole “find an identical or bigger drive”)

I remember the day when one of our computers for robotics pooped out on us, however the hard drive still spins (you can hear it), and it doesn't click very much either. Would a possible incomplete format render the hard drive useless?

The stands on which the hard drives are, where did you get them?

What can you do if you've already safely transferred all your photos and documents and music and stuff like that, but the failing computer has a professional audio editing software program installed on it, that you can't get anymore without having to pay a subscription fee? How do you preserve something like that? Is there a way to move it to another computer? The reason I'm asking is because I have an HP Pavilion desktop with Windows 7 that was purchased in 2011. Its hard drive is starting to fail, but I was able to get all my files that I wanted, transferred to an external hard drive and my laptop, so I'm not worried about that. But it has an old bootlegged copy of Adobe Audition 3.0 installed on it, that I got from a radio station I was volunteering at. It's a professional audio editing program that radio stations use for things like making commercials and it's used for music production. I LOVE that program and none of the alternatives seem to do it for me. I need it to go over the audio recordings of my interviews when I do freelance writing gigs for magazines. I also like to make music. I also have a few other video and animation programs installed on the older computer, that I paid for, that I could get again on my laptop, which would cost me about another $200. Question for anyone reading this - Do you think it's worth it for me to try to fix the older computer? They wanted $75 for the first 45 minutes of bench time, diagnosing the problem. They guy said he might be able to fix it as long as the hard drive didn't get scratched. He said when the reader thing digs into it enough to scratch it, that's what permanently destroys it. What should I do? Do you think it'd be a waste of $75 dollars to see if it's fixable? I'm hopeful that it is fixable, at least for now anyway, because I was able to get it to turn on a few times when I transferred the files. The last few days I used it, it started to get ridiculously slow and when I turned it on after shutting down, I got a black screen that said, "insert boot device and press key." So I pressed a key like it said to, and it did actually turn on, two out of three times that I tried, so I was luckily able to transfer my files that I wanted.

I just wanted to say thank's Linus, the info in this video helped me find out which one of my mechanical HDD was making that "clicking" noise, and now I have the software to do something about it. No more lost data for me. :)

If the drive just makes a wining noise, is that good? The drive is in a HP desktop. I tried cloning it and it won't read the new HDD. I been through 3 different HDDs.

I have a WD 2TB, about 3 months ago it had a bunch of clicks at once, still didn't die but today I heard a bunch of clicks again. is it normal or it's dying?

my laptop opens in desktop and it does the startup sounds then it turns off Any solution plz or is my laptop fucked

i have 2 year old hard drive and i want data from it. so it is possible to get my stuff back?

My HDD clicks like crazy whenever there is a read or write operation, but its been like that for a couple of months now, and it's the drive I install all my games on, so how long do HDDs last after they start clicking?

i have a retail pc, how will i be able to download from internet without working hard drive?

All my programs (apart from games) crash, Windows says a lot of the times that it's not responding and most of the time I boot ,Windows scans and repairs my disk. Is my drive dying or is something else to blame?

I have a 6 month old laptop that sometimes makes clicking noises (3 times every 10 hours of use). Is my hard drive failing already, or is it because I'm doing really intensive tasks ( which I always do).

Great video on memory back up, now I must not forget to do this :)

If I may ask...My HP desk gave me the "hard disk failure is imminent" message about 2 months ago (yes, I have a functioning brain stem so I'm backed up on a 1 TB external). I also bought an identical replacement HDD as the one I have (Seagate 750GB)Now the questions; I have used this "imminent failing" PC for 2 months and the only issue is it responds slowly, no "read or write" noise coming from my HDD, no other problems at all except it's silent. Both fans are spinning but my PC makes no sound? Do I just back up the operating system, swap my new HDD and toss the old one because I got an error message? It's passed every test I ran (chkdsk etc) or do I save this "dying" HDD and make it a second HDD? My PC is acting like a PC does when it has a virus, not a dying HDD, I've already purchased a replacement but I'd hate to ditch this HDD if I can use it for additional memory space etc. Thanks so much

There is a video that shows exactly what's wrong with my hard drive called (How to fix an i o device error on a wd external hard drive) 2:02 would you be able to help?

Would disk cloning software work? Like the ones that come stock with most Samsung SSD's?

sooo my HDD clicks every now and then mostly when opening containing files games ect, is that a bad thing?? it only clicks for a sec and then its back to normal. :/

so that loud fan isn't my fan is a metal sniping disk every time i play an hour long video? the times I've tried cooling off my laptop

My laptop has been making a sharp clicking noise for 2 years now, but has been working fine. However, lately I've been seeing weird artifacts appear on the screen at times. Is it related to a failing harddrive?

I Have a SEAGATE expansion drive that I dont know is broken, I use it to store games on my console and earlier today it started randomly making a clicking noise, and then the light went out. I can't access any of the games saved on the hard drive and it's like it is not even connected to my console. Is there a way to fix this, or somehow find a way to get my data off it?

If I create an image of my hard drive and then take the failing hard drive out of my computer and replace it with the backed up image Drive, Do I have to reinstall all my software or will the computer read the drive as a mirrored image?

is it possible to bypass the winrar password system? (not brutforcing) what about uploading .rar files (with passwords) to cloud services or one click hoster like mega? im talking about lists like account informations etc?

I haven't had a drive fail on me yet, but I do have a drive that is going to be 8 years old this year, so I have been babying it along until I can start backing stuff up.

My PC is making a loud humming noise, right now. Only just started yesterday and the day before, I updated my Nvidia card which is a really cool card with fans on it. I also have 2 front tower fans. My tower is amazingly cool, not hot to touch. On research someone said a dying hard drive :'( I really hope not. I have 2 hard drives, one which is my c: drive, and is partitioned for Windows 10 and the other is my E: drive which is for storage, for games like World of Warcraft for instance, which can take me an insane amount of time to re-download if not backed up. Any advice on what this loud humming noise could be? Thank you in advance.

my hdd is 80gb (old one) says its 5gb, my linux pc always says that i dont have enough storage.Any help?

One tip is to do a directory listing in DOS, if you can, to a text file on another drive. That way if you do loose the drive you'll know what you lost and it will be simpler to replace those files from your backups.

If you already experiencing the click of death, is Partimage still an option, or is that only an option if it's still functioning? And if so, why does it still work? I mean they HDD fails to work right?

Is there any software for linux that tells you if and when your HDD is about to die so you backup before it die and lose your data?

no my pc is starting to suddenly stop working like all the pages stop reloading and i cant get anything to work but my mouse is still working and moving around, i figured its a hard drive situation?

I saw our new IT guy put a hard-drive in a waterproof esd bag, then put frozen cold packs below and above the drive to chill it down as much as possible. He managed to read a raw image off that drive and copy it onto a new one. This was an old 500MB drive off a 20 year old pick-and-place machine. I was shocked/amazed how none of the many previous IT people ever bothered to backup any of the hard-drives on our equipment on the shop floor. They only fixed/backed-up people's PCs' and wouldn't touch any equipment on the production floor. (Not my job syndrome, I suppose). Me and the new IT guy made a continuous improvement project out of putting every piece of equipment (mission critical!!!) on the shop floor on a regular backup schedule.

my new Barracuda 7200.11 RPM Hard drive stop spinning i try to install windows 7 and it shows at first time then i restart computer and the hard drive never run again :/ when i move the hard drive with my hand it make a little spinning sound

2:16 I believe the future would be Seagate's hybrid drives, only with a much larger "buffer" because Flash Memory is getting cheaper, with an option to slow the drive itself down to reduce stress. For instance, if it has a maximum speed of 7200 or even a ludicrous 10000 RPM, you could slow it down to like, 360 RPM or something.

My pc keep killing hdds, like i boot up using ssd but my 2nd hard drive keep dying even when i switched to a new one it still dies after a few months. Im wondering if my motherboard is the reason

What are some good software to backup hard drives like what Linus said, for windows, linux n mac? :D

My laptop starts up but it takes forever for the welcome screen to load and even if it loads it still takes a very long time to load anything without crashing the computer and shutting it down automatically, whats wrong with my laptop.

My hard drive started failing TODAY. Man, this video could not have been timed more perfectly!