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Click of Death

  • 12-10-2009 1:59pm
    #1
    Riamfada
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭


    My HD has just given up the ghost with what I have found out from google searches was the Click of Death. What I havnt found out is how to fix it, has anyone any experience with this type of thing and hard drives, can the data be recovered.

    Cheers
    G


Comments

  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Data can maybe be recovered by specialists. Try www.datarecoverydublin.ie


  • #3
    laugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    According to Scott Molton (His youtube) clicking is often a problem with the pcb, if you have an identical drive made in the same batch you can swap the pcb onto the one with your data. Professional data recovery is expensive so you have to weigh up the value of your data.


  • #4
    Riamfada
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    Thanks lads, its really just my photoalbums and text docs I need but I dont know If im willing to pay through the nose for memories! Cheers for the advice


  • #5
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,932 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Grimes wrote: »
    Thanks lads, its really just my photoalbums and text docs I need but I dont know If im willing to pay through the nose for memories! Cheers for the advice
    Keep the hard drive then and put it somewhere safe. One day, when we have the technology, we can rebuild those memories at affordable rates. Just a few years ago disk recovery of that nature would have been only available to the government or fortune 500 companies.


  • #6
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    Grimes wrote: »
    Thanks lads, its really just my photoalbums and text docs I need but I dont know If im willing to pay through the nose for memories! Cheers for the advice

    I'd say that type of data is one of the few WORTH paying through the nose for!


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  • #7
    polyfusion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭polyfusion


    I've had success with an IDE/SATA->USB adaptor and File Scavenger.

    Disk was clicking and wouldn't boot under normal IDE connections, but connecting up to a working PC with the above, I was able to recover everything that was important, and most of the disk actually. As an experiment, I managed to recover another 3 times before the drive completely died.

    Adaptor will cost €10-20, depending on where you get it. Software is about €30 IIRC, but I've tried a lot, both free and commercial, and File Scavenger is the only one I'd be confident of being able to recover, if indeed recovery is possible. On the drive I had success with, I tried quite a few others before trying File Scavenger, but none of them were up to the task.


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