Q. The hard drive can be read, but it makes a clickin noise after 10 seconds it has been turn on. I ask my friend for help, but he said it could be dead. I hope is not.
A. They are not user repairable, certainly not so without spending any money, so I think your expectations are unrealistic. If this clicking is a new thing the best you can do is read all your data off it and copy it to a new drive. Then ditch the drive - unreliable hard drives are more trouble than they are worth, no matter how hard up you are.
Update: Ignore another poster who advocates opening up the unit. That is a quick way to instantly destroy all data on the drive. Drives _can_ be opened up but only in clean room conditions. Replacing drive heads is a _very_ skilled job since the tolerances are unbelievably tight. There is a very good reason that data recovery specialists charge thousands for that kind of work.
Update: Ignore another poster who advocates opening up the unit. That is a quick way to instantly destroy all data on the drive. Drives _can_ be opened up but only in clean room conditions. Replacing drive heads is a _very_ skilled job since the tolerances are unbelievably tight. There is a very good reason that data recovery specialists charge thousands for that kind of work.
What is the best way to recover data from a laptop hard drive that crashed?
Q. My wife took her lap top with her on a trip to Paris about 5 years ago and it all of a sudden died and couldn't be rebooted or restored (It's a Dell). She has a ton of pictures on there from the trip that she'd transferred from her camera that she'd like to get back. I have the hard drive out of the lap top now (we took it to Data Doctors and they couldn't do anything with it). Does anyone know of any reputable places I could take the hard drive to get the data off of it? Preferably not crazy expensive.
Thanks!
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A. In a disk drive, the data is not stored like DVDs with files on each disk. Instead, it is stored vertically across multiple disks in slices. If it is a dead controller board, that can be replaced. If it is some bad data but the HDD is functional, the rest is recoverable with an HDD enclosure. But, it is likely you have a mechanical failure in the heads that read the data and the disks crashed into the reading mechanism. That is why it is called a head crash. To reconstruct the remaining data means two methods. One is pulling the drive apart to the individual disks and re-placing as a reconstruction to a new drive. The other would be to read the individual disks and pointers and by computer reconstruct the data. Both processes are incredibly difficult and that is why a price tag of $500 to $2000 is not unusual. Corporations and governments may pay for the service, or individuals that are in a MUST HAVE situation, something more than photographs.
If the HDD is functioning, there is freeware to pull files
http://www.easeus.com/resource/hard-disk-data-recovery.htm
Data retrieval services will look at what you have at no charge:
https://www.dataretrieval.com/features-and-benefits.html
You went to a franchise one.
The franchise one may not have the true data recovery methods for head crashes and just deal with the easy situations.
I suspect the cost is higher than you believe the photos are worth, but your choice to investigate.
I at least hope I helped you to understand WHY they have to charge so much.
If the HDD is functioning, there is freeware to pull files
http://www.easeus.com/resource/hard-disk-data-recovery.htm
Data retrieval services will look at what you have at no charge:
https://www.dataretrieval.com/features-and-benefits.html
You went to a franchise one.
The franchise one may not have the true data recovery methods for head crashes and just deal with the easy situations.
I suspect the cost is higher than you believe the photos are worth, but your choice to investigate.
I at least hope I helped you to understand WHY they have to charge so much.
How can I fix my external hard drive or recover the data?
Q. I added some data from my old computer onto my external hard drive but when I plugged the external hard drive into my laptop it said it had malfunctioned and now I can't use with either my computer or laptop. It isn't making any unusual noises and still turns on it just states that it has malfunctioned and cannot be read.
A. First try easy stuff like using a different USB cable.
Next you need to figure out if it's the drive itself or the USB adapter electronics that went bad.
If the USB adapter built into the enclosure is dead but the drive is okay, then you can pull the drive out of its enclosure and install it directly into your computer and it will work fine.
If the drive itself is having problems then there are a few tricks you can try, including reorienting the drive, chilling the drive and smacking it on the table. You need to be careful using these techniques though so you don't make the problem worse. Here's a pretty good list of things to try:
http://www.modd3d.com/articles/item/computer-data-recovery-tips
Next you need to figure out if it's the drive itself or the USB adapter electronics that went bad.
If the USB adapter built into the enclosure is dead but the drive is okay, then you can pull the drive out of its enclosure and install it directly into your computer and it will work fine.
If the drive itself is having problems then there are a few tricks you can try, including reorienting the drive, chilling the drive and smacking it on the table. You need to be careful using these techniques though so you don't make the problem worse. Here's a pretty good list of things to try:
http://www.modd3d.com/articles/item/computer-data-recovery-tips
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