# 3rd master hard disk error
**URL:** https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/3rd-master-hard-disk-error/7330
**Category:** General Chat
**Created:** [December 15, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/3rd-master-hard-disk-error/7330 "2008-12-15T02:44:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/3rd-master-hard-disk-error/7330/1 "2008-12-15T02:44:51Z")
3rd master hard disk error
Can someone out there tell me what this is?
A friend’s computer is showing this…
How or can we remedy it?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/3rd-master-hard-disk-error/7330/2 "2008-12-15T03:02:44Z")
Hard Drive could be on its way out, Is it clicking when you power on?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/3rd-master-hard-disk-error/7330/3 "2008-12-15T03:18:54Z")
not really… thanks though we do figure that the hard drive is toast…
She is upset she will lose everything on the drive…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/3rd-master-hard-disk-error/7330/4 "2008-12-15T07:26:09Z")
you can send your hard drive in to a recovery place, it will cost quite a bit of money, but if the stuff is priceless it will be worth it.
i think its called first recovery.
good luck
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/3rd-master-hard-disk-error/7330/5 "2008-12-15T15:27:57Z")
If the drive is unreadable, there are people in town that can probably recover the data for you. Depends how much the data is worth, though. I can do a few techniques for recovering data, as can others in Rupert. But it’s probably not worth it unless the stuff on the drive had real value.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/3rd-master-hard-disk-error/7330/6 "2008-12-15T15:39:41Z")
throw it a zip lock bag then put into freezer, 10 to 20 min then run it as slave and take the folders you need it off,… works 50% of the time
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/3rd-master-hard-disk-error/7330/7 "2008-12-16T02:51:21Z")
> [@rupertguy](#):
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> not really… thanks though we do figure that the hard drive is toast…
> She is upset she will lose everything on the drive…
Tell her that’s why people say BACK UP… they aren’t saying it just to hear themselves speak.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/3rd-master-hard-disk-error/7330/8 "2008-12-16T17:04:29Z")
> [@herbie\_popnecker](#):
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> Tell her that’s why people say BACK UP… they aren’t saying it just to hear themselves speak.
Great advice, I often BACK UP from my computer when it is doing such things. It is to new and costly to have me close enough to smash it to bits. I find screaming into a pillow helps as well, the pillow can also double as a device for throwing at the computer, it probably won’t hurt it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/3rd-master-hard-disk-error/7330/9 "2015-11-14T17:10:14Z")