Hey Guys I haven't posted in a long time but anywho str8 to the point. I have a laptop and the internal HDD just hit the bricks. Loud clicking noise, I hear it spinning but no windows boot. I have VERY important photographs that I need for my college portfolio... You get the gist. Now I know I can't use data recovery if the drive isn't in working order so I'm assuming it needs to be repaired? I need to know if it can and if any of you guys know an online site to help me with this probem. I've been googling for a while now and all I find is crap data recovery sites. I need to get the drive out as soon as I get home to get the brand and model. I'm willing to pay for this repair so money is no object to me. Thmx for your help in advance!
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Visit your college's IT desk, they might be able to hook you up. In the meantime it might be wise to start shopping around for a new internal hard drive and an external backup solution for the future. If you have your OS disk or recovery disk for reinstalling windows, you might also want to find that.
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Should've backed your data up, first of all.
Is the drive making any clicking noises? Or is it just not being detected? It may just require a PCB swap, or the drive could be more deteriorated than that.
Data recovery firms may be your best bet if your data is that important to you; good ones have clean rooms and such where they can operate the platters out of the chassis and read the data from there, but they're not cheap.
Is the drive making any clicking noises? Or is it just not being detected? It may just require a PCB swap, or the drive could be more deteriorated than that.
Data recovery firms may be your best bet if your data is that important to you; good ones have clean rooms and such where they can operate the platters out of the chassis and read the data from there, but they're not cheap.