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Canine · 03-10-2010, 06:21 PM

The clicking means that your disk read heads are going bad. If you can still access the drive at all, get everything off of it immediately. If its very important, the drive can be repaired professionally, but that can cost USD 1000+, so it might not be worth it for you.

As a last ditch effort, you can put the drive in your freezer overnight and, depending on how bad it is, it might (not guaranteed) start working long enough to retrieve your data. This has a high possibility of permanently (irrecoverably) damaging your drive after its warmed up (half an hour at most), so only do this if you have no other option.

03-10-2010, 06:21 PM	#4 (permalink)
Canine Upright Location: Fort Bragg, NC / Kandahar Province, Afghanistan	The clicking means that your disk read heads are going bad. If you can still access the drive at all, get everything off of it immediately. If its very important, the drive can be repaired professionally, but that can cost USD 1000+, so it might not be worth it for you. As a last ditch effort, you can put the drive in your freezer overnight and, depending on how bad it is, it might (not guaranteed) start working long enough to retrieve your data. This has a high possibility of permanently (irrecoverably) damaging your drive after its warmed up (half an hour at most), so only do this if you have no other option. __________________ Awesome sig coming to a post near you! If you say plz because its shorter than please, then I'll say no because its shorter than yes.