Q: The day before that happened my HD made a funny noise, of course I dismissed it and now it does not spin and will not boot beyond bios am I le screwed is there any way that I can copy this drive to another? Will I have to take it appart? or am I totally screwed?
A: A friend of mine has had success with the following method. It is a shot in the dark, but it sounds like you have nothing to lose anyway. Take out the hard drive, put it in a static-free bag, put that in another plastic zipper bag (a sandwich bag will do). Put it in the freezer over night. In the morning take it out of the bags (you have to work quickly and carefully), hook the hard drive back into your machine. *IF* it boots, you will have approximately 15 to 20 minutes to possibly retrieve your most important data before the drive flakes out again. PLEASE NOTE: This method will only work about 5% of the time, but if you are down and out and don't have several thousand dollars to send it off to a clean room for data retrieval, then it is worth a shot. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. Good Luck!