Remove the hard drive from the casing if possible and install it in yourĬomputer case or another external case.If the drive works, the problem If your drive does not make a connection sound when connecting to yourĬomputer and also does not show up, please follow the next step. If it is listed, right click on the drive and change theĭrive letter to make it appear in "my computer". Management, and see if your external drive is listed here with your Go to Start-Control Panel-Administrative Tools-Computer Management-Disk Okay, so there are some steps to figure out what is wrong with your external.įirstly, if your computer makes a sound when you plug in your external , Many Data-smith companies exist these days for the sole purpose of recovering data that was lost to a drive crash. Do an internet search for 'data recovery hard drives' in your local area and you may be pleasantly surprised. If you find that it's a dead end, don't despair. Even if you're out of service I'd call regardless as most are happy to sell you into recovery work. The good news is most hard drive manufacturers offer a data recovery service for their hardware, so you can send your drive in and get back a fixed one complete with your old data. The bad news is there's no way for you to remedy this without a state of the art clean lab and the precision tools to re-manufacture, or simply realign as the case may be, this hard drive. You're right that it's most in jeopardy when writing, but the sound you're describing indicates that it's read/write heads can't align themselves correctly. Modern hard drives take a beating better than their older counterparts, though they remain semi-fragile devices that rely on super precise internal balancing and magnetics. All is not lost! (although that drive is most likely a goner.)
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