roachboy

so this is probably quite basic, but not so much to me.
because i am semi-literate technologically, you see.

i have a fantom drive external hard drive that seems to have developed a Problem...where previously it worked fine, not when it is turned on it makes a series of clicking sounds and then nothing happens.

when i plug it into my pc, it registers that there is a device connected via the usb port, but apparently nothing is being read.

so i assume that we have a lovely mechanical problem.
like the drive itself is crapping out.

so the question is:
does that sound right?
and if it is, what steps are possible?

the scenario i envision is that i have tog et a new hard drive, take this one to a data recovery dude and get the files copied.
but i am hoping there is another way to do approach this.
is there?

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