hard drive failure (1 Viewer)

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andy wilkes

Well-known member

• Aug 11, 2012

• #1

hi all, my hard drive has stopped working and makes a clicking noise instead,it doesnt register on my computer but inside you can hear the disc spinning, can anyone recommend a company to retieve my 160000 pics as they are not backed up, clever eh??!!!, many thanks andy

 

Vernon Barker

Well-known member

• Aug 11, 2012

• #2

andy wilkes said:

hi all, my hard drive has stopped working and makes a clicking noise instead,it doesnt register on my computer but inside you can hear the disc spinning, can anyone recommend a company to retieve my 160000 pics as they are not backed up, clever eh??!!!, many thanks andy

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Kingdom Data Recovery, they have a web site.

I had exactly the same problem as you describe, they recovered all my photos and it only cost in the £120.00 region. Very good and helpful people to deal with.

 

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thornlv

Well-known member

• Aug 11, 2012

• #3

PC World Know how data rescue service, you need to provide something big enough for all your data, external drive etc - £80.

 

Kentbloke

Ah, yes, well

• Aug 11, 2012

• #4

Andy

before going down the recovery route, you should remove the drive and try it in an external caddy. It's possibly not the HDD that's faulty. I've recovered many a supposed faulty drive with this method

Good luck :t:

 

Last edited: Aug 11, 2012

GraemeS

Sporadic user

• Aug 12, 2012

• #5

I second trying an external caddy first to try to copy the photos across.

If you then manage to see the hard drive but still can't see the files (eg Windows asks you to format the drive), recovery is still possible.
I've used PhotoRec before to recover files from a drive my sister formatted accidentally. But if you're not technically minded, use an outside firm.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Good luck.

 

kennethwfd

Well-known member

• Aug 13, 2012

• #6

Have you made sure it is simply not a bad connection between motherboard and disk as power is getting to it. Or CMOS settings to make sure the PC is recognising the disk.

Sometimes a good old vacuum inside the PC case to get rid of accumulated dust can work wonders

 

alancairns

Well-known member

• Aug 14, 2012

• #7

The fact that the drive is making a clicking noise is ominous.

Alan

 

Robert L Jarvis

Robert L Jarvis

• Aug 14, 2012

• #8

That is bad luck Andy. Hope you can get your photos back. Should be a warning to all, back up your work.

I have 2 external HDD, in addition everything is backed up onto blu-ray disc which holds up to 25 Gb per disc. One cannot be too careful.