Hard Drive Data Recovery

Hi

There is no easy and quick solution for this failure type and model.
The clicking is and or one of the following;

1. Head stack failure
2. Microcode issues
3. PCB issues

You need to speak to a professional data recovery company for advice and how to take this forward, please do not switch the drive on any more as you may compound the recovery.

I hope this helps.

All the best with your recovery.

Hard drives break down - - recovery of data is difficult and expensive. One should keep a copy of all the data on CD - - DVD or another on some other media. I have 3 computers. I installed a spare hard drive in each. Therefore I have a master C drive and a spare D drive. I use a program called Ghost to clone or copy (program uses DOS) all the data form C to D. I do this about once a week and it takes about 15 to 20 minutes depending on the amount of data being transfered and speed of your computer. It is not complicated but there is a system or way of doing the transfer. A suggestion: A broken hard drive might not operate as a C drive but if you set the pins as a slave - - install it as a slave in MOST computers - - you have a good chance of retrieving you data.

Nick