Hard Drive Clicking - Any chance of data recovery?

[ed1564]

I did a defrag on my secondary HD. Did a reboot and now XP does not recognize my second hard drive. When it boots the drive make a loud clicking noise.

I am pretty much convinced it is dead. I did a google search and saw some companies that did data recovery on dead HD's, could not find a price though. They all were call in for quotes.

Anyone have any experience with this? What price range am I looking at?

It is an older 30gb WD.

 

[xsilver]

professional servies are VERY expensive with no guarantee of recovery, although their sucess rate is good.... (prices are probably 2 times the price of an on call plumber maybe?

some users here have reported that putting the drive in the freezer may give you enough time to recover the data (about 30mins to 1 hour before it dies again)
may be worth a shot to try

 

[Deslok]

I had a similar experience but i was able to recover most of the data via a "trial version" of some of the more popular apps.

The professional services are usually very expensive.

"insert obligatory comment about backup, backup,backup"