my laptop hard drive is either dying or dead due to clicking noises and it not being detected on either the laptop or a desktop. Is their any way I can make it readable again without having to pay over $100 for some Staples goon to attempt to recover it. Is it fixable if I where to open it up and fiddled with the head?
>>54792114
Open it and use a microfiber cloth on the platters in a gentle circular motion. My cousin's friend swears this works.
>>54792114
You are probably fucked, and for sure don't listen to the dick that said clean the platters.
Use something like this as a bootable disk: http://www.ntfs.com/recovery-toolkit.htm
You can also put it in the freezer for a few hours and you might get a little data off of it, but doing so will fry the disk eventually.
>>54792144
Don't do this.
It makes mustard gas.
Opened her up, not seeing anything wrong. I assumed it was clicking because the drive head was stuck but it obviously isn't. What do?
>>54792680
It's done kiddo. You destroyed it.
>>54792680
Oh all the dust
>>54792680
Please tell me you didn't actually open the drive up.
>>54792680
Buy some LED, wired up a discreet PSU, and hang it on your wall. You goofed, friend.
>>54792114
Linux can usually read it even if windows can't. Best option is to use ddrescue to make an image of the drive.
>>54792680
You just destroyed any hope of getting anything off it. It's oxidized now.
>>54794438
It reads the drive now but it's reading it as an unallocated drive. I sure as hell don't want to allocate it and delete everything
>>54792114
If you are lucky you can tap it gently while it is trying to spin up, I have managed to pull this off before. Make sure you have a plan and move the data off it immediately, assume after you do this it will never start again.
