Hard Drive Failure

benne

Hi guys,

My External Hard drive has stopped registering on "my computer" and has loud clicking noises.. It might be the laser I was told?? I brought it to Passax in Galway today and he said it would have to be sent to some crowd in Dublin costing me €2k.. I'm hoping someone here might have experience with this.
I did try the freezer trick for 2 hours.. it did get the motor whizzing like normal but it never registered on my computer and the clicking came back.
It is a "Freecom classic mobile HD 2.5" 60gig", it is 6 years old and I regret putting my stuff on it now (even though it was only temp)!!
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Paddy

bhickey

Hello Paddy, I don't want to get your hopes up but if you're not willing to chance the €2k then I'd have a go at very carefully removing the drive from the case and seeing if you can get it to work in a computer or an external USB caddy. Clicking noises from hard disks are normally a sign of something terminal but you never know - the problem could just be in the Freecom electronics side of things and the drive itself might be okay.

benne

Hey mate, I wont be going down the 2k route anyway, I basically have all my pictures from living down in NZ and my travels, and then bit and bobs. Pics being the only sore point but I'd prefer to spend 2k travelling again instead.. It is a pain though!
Have you done something similar before? If you are willing to have a look it would be much appreciated.

bhickey

benne wrote: »

Have you done something similar before? If you are willing to have a look it would be much appreciated.

PM me and we can sort something out.