I have a broken internal hard drive. as i turn it on I hear a periodic tic tic tic sound. almost like the sound of a wallclock. This is common to any other hard drive with any brand. Could it be the moving mechanical parts inside alone is the problem or both electronic and mechanical?
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The actuator arm has either gone nuts or it cant read the disk anymore and is just bouncing around.
memory
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That is probably a failing drive. I just had this happen to one of mine.
It is still possible to recover the information. You can either use a external enclosure or buy a usb to sata/ide adapter cable. I used a external enclosure and it still showed all the files on there. The cable would be the cheaper choice.
It is still possible to recover the information. You can either use a external enclosure or buy a usb to sata/ide adapter cable. I used a external enclosure and it still showed all the files on there. The cable would be the cheaper choice.
If the drive is clicking its not gonna matter what connector you use, its still gonna click and not bootup.
memory
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I just had a drive start clicking on me and it would not boot up. This was just a storage drive so I took it out, put it in a external enclosure and it read it fine and it did not click. I was still able to transfer the files off of it.
Now if the drive has the OS on it, then that might be a problem.
Now if the drive has the OS on it, then that might be a problem.
Piotrek12317
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put it in the freezer
ganzey
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um, no.
S.T.A.R.S.
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You can simply try to save your data from that HDD using one of these 3 ways:
--->use the NTFS4DOS which you boot directly from the CD in the DOS environment and use the file called "XXCOPY16.EXE" to copy your data on some other removable drive...
Copy command example:
XXCOPY16.EXE C:\Data\ E:\Backup\
That command will copy all the data from the location on that HDD -> "C:\Data" into...for example...the USB stick's location -> "E:\Backup".
NOTE: Be sure that you have that file called "XXCOPY16.EXE" on the CD!!!
--->use the Windows recovery console which you can get to by booting from your Windows OS CD or DVD and use that recovery console to copy your data on some other removable drive...
Copy command example:
XCOPY.EXE C:\Data\ E:\Backup\
That command will copy all the data from the location on that HDD -> "C:\Data" into...for example...the USB stick's location -> "E:\Backup".
--->use the Linux Ubuntu version 9.04 which you boot directly from the CD and use it to copy your data on some other removable drive...
Cheers mate!
--->use the NTFS4DOS which you boot directly from the CD in the DOS environment and use the file called "XXCOPY16.EXE" to copy your data on some other removable drive...
Copy command example:
XXCOPY16.EXE C:\Data\ E:\Backup\
That command will copy all the data from the location on that HDD -> "C:\Data" into...for example...the USB stick's location -> "E:\Backup".
NOTE: Be sure that you have that file called "XXCOPY16.EXE" on the CD!!!
--->use the Windows recovery console which you can get to by booting from your Windows OS CD or DVD and use that recovery console to copy your data on some other removable drive...
Copy command example:
XCOPY.EXE C:\Data\ E:\Backup\
That command will copy all the data from the location on that HDD -> "C:\Data" into...for example...the USB stick's location -> "E:\Backup".
--->use the Linux Ubuntu version 9.04 which you boot directly from the CD and use it to copy your data on some other removable drive...
Cheers mate!
