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[bumbklaatt]

So, on top of my motherboard deciding not to work, both my hard drives have decided to fail at once.

That's all my photos, music, and other file and data lost, forever. I am so fucking pissed off now, I had to leave the room to stop myself from punching the computer. Again.

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[tendrils]

Dead how? Clicking? Clunking? Not powering up? Not detecting?

[bumbklaatt]

No noise at all, and placing my hand on it, there doesn't seem to be any motor activity.

Neither of them are detecting.

I've tried swapping power leads IDE leads and channels. Is there anythign else you could suggest? It just seems strange that both would go at once.

I'll qualify all of this by sayig that I'd had about 4 hours sleep between 5am and 9am before doing this, so my powers of observation were lacking.

[tendrils]

Sounds pretty dead to me.
Obviously the PC is turning on, so it shouldn't be your power supply.
Are you using connectors off the same lead? It could just be a particular cable that's screwed. It seems highly unlikely two drives would die at once, but that's what it sounds like has happened.

[bumbklaatt]

I tried swapping the leads, and that didn't seem to work either. I plan on attacking it again tonight, and will hopefully be able to work out whatever is wrong with them.

If it's just a motor issue, a data recovery place may be able to salvage some data off them, right? I really only want the photos, as I can replace the music if I have to.