Hard Drive 'click of death' - Help!

[BooneRebel]

I have an older WD 13GB hard drive that recently gave up the ghost. On boot, when the BIOS tries to access the drive it makes a 'click-click-click' and the system comes back and says no drive detected.

Has anyone had success with any hardware-level fixes to drives in this condition? It's gone right now anyway, so I'm wondering if there is anything I can do internally to the drive to get it to read again, at least long enough to get the data off of it. I'm not concerned enough about it to go to a data-recovery service, but I don't want to just throw it away without trying something. Any suggestions?

 

[LostHiWay]

Don't try to open the thing up..you can't fix it.

You can try putting the drive in a sealed ziplock bag in the freezer for 24 hours or so. After you take it out hook it up right away and it "might" work long enough to get your data off.

 

[BooneRebel]

Originally posted by: LostHiWay
Don't try to open the thing up..you can't fix it.

You can try putting the drive in a sealed ziplock bag in the freezer for 24 hours or so. After you take it out hook it up right away and it "might" work long enough to get your data off.

Never heard of that one before...but I'll try anything once 😀

 

[beyonddc]

Originally posted by: BooneRebel

Originally posted by: LostHiWay
Don't try to open the thing up..you can't fix it.

You can try putting the drive in a sealed ziplock bag in the freezer for 24 hours or so. After you take it out hook it up right away and it "might" work long enough to get your data off.

Never heard of that one before...but I'll try anything once 😀

That's some sort of magic theory flowing around in the IT industry. We use that method sometime in our MIS department also. Got few sucess and few failures..

🙂