Hello fixya my lacie 1 terrabite fell but not that hard. its being seen by by my imac but i cannot access it. it is also making clicking sounds like when a drive is reading. but louder. ken

You may need to send it out to a data recovery lab. Before that try a remote access data recovery service like http://FreeDataRecovery.us

They operate an online data recovery service via the internet and also offer do-it-yourself data recovery assistance.

Hello,

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Carter

HELLO;
If you hear a clicking sound from your HD ,then most probably its in its last stage, Make sure you back the files from your HD as possible as you can.

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Hello,

Thanks for providing a great description of your drive and sounds. It sounds like your drive is suffering from the dreaded click of death. This happens for a few reasons the most common of which is a head failure. This would seem most likely as heads can easily crash if the drive is bumped or dropped while running.

To fix this issue you will require a professional lab with a clean room to open the drive and transplant a new head assembly into the device. This procedure generally runs anywhere from $1200-$1500 depending on the model of hard drive inside the LaCie enclosure.

I am a data recovery technician and can recommend a lab near you if you decide the data on the drive is worth the cost of recovery, if not I would simply recommend purchasing a new drive and always keeping your data on a minimum of 2 places/drives preferably 3 places so failures like this never cost you more than the price of a new drive.

If you decide to attempt a recovery, simply reply to this answer with your lacie model information and location(Country, State, City) and I will refer you to a nearby facility with a clean room.

Hope this helps FixYa,

Chris

It sounds like you have damaged the drive.

The clicking sound is a mechanical failure where the the read arm inside the drive is hitting the magnetic platters. You should backup your data immediately as drive failure is imminent.

Robert from Blitware

The funny clicking noise you are hearing is usually from a mechanical failure within the hard drive. The drive will need to be replaced at this point. If the drive is still under warranty you will want to process an RMA.

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Robert from Blitware

Hi,

The hard disk might have gone down . Kindly diagnose the disk and try . Good Luck

Unfortunatley this is the classic symptoms of a broken drive. You can try accessing the drive on DOS by using online software. (eg spinrite).

If you get your drive to work copy all the important info onto discs and format this drive.

As i repair PC's this is the most common problem. Hard drives are only guaranteed for 1 to 3 years.

To help you in future

*Defrag your hard drive every month
*Backup and format the drive every year
*And never fill up a drive over 60% ( eg never exceed 60 gig on a 100 gig drive.

These easy steps should stop a hard drive faliure and make it last around 5-10 years.

Hope this helps

there can be 2 problems:

1) VIRUS INFECTED

2) DLL file is infected

sounds like hd is getting hot via firewire try and use the usb lead if same problem then get your files off quick and repace drive any thing above 80 gig will get hot in use that's why I use harddrive coolers on my large 300gig 400gig internal and only use my 250 gigs and 160 gig only when i need the files off they are turned off all time