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by wbryder

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is there anyway to force my computor to see a hard drive that has been working for a year but that now only clicks click click on boot up? It was the drive i backed everything to because it was the newest now i think i have lost everything. Please confirm.

thank You,

Wayne

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by ann777

If your hdd is clacking/clicking, you most probably have a hdd crash. Do you have any utilities that would allow you to potentially recover directories/files from the hdd?

You could connect the drive to another computer as non-master and seeif you can access anything beyond the boot sectors.

Another alternative would be to take it to a data-recovery professional. They don't guarantee that they can recover anything, but usually they can recover most or part of your needed data.

by psyche

If you dont hear the platters spinning, chances are that, the hard drive is dead. If it is a scraping sound, most likely the hard drive is crashed. Try moving it around the power supply ports first and switching the IDE cable, also if it is just clicking, it can be the stepper motor, that you are hearing or it is the spindle trying to spin the platter, but the motor is probably burned out.

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