tried external usb holster: fail tried the freezer trick: fail tapped it lightly a few times: fail slammed it hard: fail
everytime hangs on the windows loading screen
sound it makes: tic tic... tic tic... tic whiiiirrrr (repeat)
any other brainbusting suggestions?
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
Expensive data recovery service, preferably prior to the hammer trick, submersion in liquid nitrogen, or pneumatic wrench application during boot up.
(Seriously, sorry to hear that. It sucks bad to lose data.)
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:Originally posted by RivalOfTheRose: sound it makes: tic tic... tic tic... tic whiiiirrrr (repeat)
click of death. head crash, probably.
Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :
If it's your primary drive, where the OS is located, and the system freezes on boot, it may still be possible to get data off it. You indicated that the external usb enclosure failed...was the drive not detected at all?
Posted by RivalOfTheRose (Member # 11535) on :
drive not detected, no OS... just data
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
That is a good thing. It means you can get your data off of it.
We know the drive is dead, so booting it is a lose-lose idea anyways. There are no measures to prevent a clicking drive from going dead.
Posted by Badenov (Member # 12075) on :
One of the caveats of the freezer trick is that if it works, it's good for 15 minutes, and if you don't use a plastic bag you'll probably get ice inside the drive enclosure, which makes recovery difficult even in a clean room recovery lab. The other caveat is that after your 15 minutes are up, you're hosed on any non-laboratory recovery methods (mostly due to the whole ice inside the drive thing).
The clicking isn't necessarily a head crash, but could be caused by a mechanism failure in the little machines that make the read arm move around. Either way, there really isn't a good method for fixing the problem by yourself that isn't potentially expensive and destructive (finding the exact same model hard drive and swapping the discs out for example).
I would highly recommend that you determine what the monetary value of the data on the drive would be. If what's on there is worth more than 1000 dollars to you (time to reproduce/replace included), then I would send it to Drivesavers. They are extremely competent and very good at what they do. They're also pretty quick.