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By waterflow on Jan 17, 2008

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Hi there, i have an acer laptop hard drive that is no accessable, the hard drive has some serious clicking sounds, how may i restore data from it,
thank you

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Guy
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If it's clicking then you may be out of luck. Sending it to a data recovery agency is really costly. You may (???) be able to get some files off the drive if you connect it to someone else's computer as a second drive. I've also heard that putting the drive in the freezer will sometimes let the drive work for a short period of time. But, IMHO the drive is toast.
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