Hard drive recovery

[tiler65]

My external hard drive has died

It started making the the infamous clicking sound, so I took it straight round to one of my techie mates and he agreed that it is foooooooooked (sorry).

Anyhoo he say he can't recover anything from it but there are quite a few things I never got around to backing up on it, so I just wondered if any of you wise fellows could help me out.

It was a, nay still is (just) a Freecom 400gb.

I have some exel invoices and quite a few piccies too.

Hope you have a wonderful Christmas.

 

[Chillimonster]

If its a IBM/Hitachi, then what you are hearing is the "Click Of Death".

In the past i have stuch the drives in a freezer (In a bag of course) for a few hours then put it back in the PC/Bay. It lived just long enough to recover wwhat i needed.

Worth a try :shrug:

 

[Chillimonster]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=click+of+death+freezer&meta=

 

[Keltic Ice Man]

I have used a few programs to get things off drives. I can't for the life of me remember the names of either prog I have used.

I'll post the name when it comes to me.

Allan

 

[IanC_UK]

does the drive identify itself in the computer ? can you see the drive in my computer, but with no data ? if so, this may be worth a try, http://www.download.com/3000-2248-10118663.html

If its not showing in my computer it may be past it sorry only other option is a data recovery company and they will charge about 250 quid to recover it !

 

[Defiance]

Take it to a good local pc shop / repairer. I had a hard drive crash and burn and for £40 they recovered all my files onto a DVD.

 

[mrgubby]

Freeze it , done it with 3 drives so far & it's worked every time

 

[Wookie]

I've managed to recover most data off a bad (click and buzz) drive by connecting it to a different pc (so not booting off the bad drive) with the pc case open and rotating the bad drive by hand between I found that with the drive held in certain positions it could read most of the data, still fouled on some data areas but managed to read most. If it is half working like this try pulling the data from separate small data areas not all at once, if an area fails try turning the drive into a different orienattion like on its side or end. Upside down is not a good orientation for a drive, as the bearings are not designed for that, but could be useful for the last resort attempt on a bad data area after copying from all the good areas.