Hard drive BROKEN

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Spidey12

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I have a LaCie EXTernal hard drive design by FA Porsche. Its 250 GB. I dropped it the other day and was like crap. Anyway I plugged it in and tried to use it, and it was working sporadically..sometimes it would work and then it just wouldnt. All the data seemed to be in tact. This morning i woke up, turned it on and it started making a loud clicking noise (after what seems to be the warming up of the hard drive). In other words, the drive is spinning, but then a clicking noise begins to occur after this.

I am thinking about buying a new lacie hard drive, but i need my old data. best buy wants 300$ just to transfer the data.


What are my options?
 
Boot it and try to access the data and transfer it over?
 
I've tried that. I've turned it on and off 1000 times now. I even hit it in anger once, lol, and the clicking went away for a few seconds.
 
Sounds like the drive is dead for sure. I don't think bestbuy can recover that for $300 unless if they some new in house service I don't know about.

The only last suggestion I have for you is to pop it out of its enclosure, stick it into your machine, hope it works, the other alternative would be to try a program to diagnose it or even try to see it and then try a recovery program.

Other than that, you are going to look at mucho dinero for recovery.
 
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