Scoop
Lieutenant Junior Grade
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Re: Hard Drive failure help
The clicking is a bad thing. Install it was a second drive in a system. Boot the system and try to copy as much off as possible. When you hear the clicking, it is trying to read secors that are damaged either physically or have lost their data.
That the drive is spinning up is good and bad. I know how to get a drive that is not spinning up and working long enough to get your files, but the clicking is about the worst you can have. If you can read it when installing it as a second drive in the system, get as much off as you can. You will have some corruption.
If the data is worth it, then you can send it in to a data recovery service. They open the drive in a clean room and fix the issue or install the platters in another drive. Normally they will not be able to recover all your data. Usually they charge you around $200 just to look at it and more if they can recover depending on the size.
Don't have the geeks do it. They are just going to send it in anyway and mark it up. You can send it in yourself and save their markup.
I have used this company in the past. Not cheap, but they are good.
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com
The clicking is a bad thing. Install it was a second drive in a system. Boot the system and try to copy as much off as possible. When you hear the clicking, it is trying to read secors that are damaged either physically or have lost their data.
That the drive is spinning up is good and bad. I know how to get a drive that is not spinning up and working long enough to get your files, but the clicking is about the worst you can have. If you can read it when installing it as a second drive in the system, get as much off as you can. You will have some corruption.
If the data is worth it, then you can send it in to a data recovery service. They open the drive in a clean room and fix the issue or install the platters in another drive. Normally they will not be able to recover all your data. Usually they charge you around $200 just to look at it and more if they can recover depending on the size.
Don't have the geeks do it. They are just going to send it in anyway and mark it up. You can send it in yourself and save their markup.
I have used this company in the past. Not cheap, but they are good.
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com
