Hi, my external Hard drive: 2 TB Hitachi Touro Desk HDD isn't recognised by my computer, makes clicking noises AND cannot be read from/written to.
Because of the expensive recovery fee (£500) and non-critical nature of the data, I'm thinking of getting the hard drive destroyed. BUT! Before I do this, is the problem able to be solved at home? Further information:
According to a service technician at a data recovery centre:
Your hard disk suffers from read/write head failure/seizure with extensive logical data errors coupled with partition damage.
This means your hard disk does have an internal failure and in order to achieve a successful data recovery, the hard disk has to be repaired temporarily using 2 donor hard drives. This involves transplanting or re-positioning of the read/write heads from the donor hard drives and re-alignment or replacing of the motor. Once the hard drive has been temporarily repaired in our dust-free sterile ISO-certified clean room using parts from the donor hard disk, we need to manually edit the disk and reconstruct the partition to create a usable drive image. After creating an image from the reconstructed partition, data will be recovered and copied onto our data servers and checked for integrity. This method involves substantial manual work; semi-automatic specialist software and hardware tools will have to be used in rebuilding a healthy partition from which data can be retrieved.
Because of the expensive recovery fee (£500) and non-critical nature of the data, I'm thinking of getting the hard drive destroyed. BUT! Before I do this, is the problem able to be solved at home? Further information:
According to a service technician at a data recovery centre:
Your hard disk suffers from read/write head failure/seizure with extensive logical data errors coupled with partition damage.
This means your hard disk does have an internal failure and in order to achieve a successful data recovery, the hard disk has to be repaired temporarily using 2 donor hard drives. This involves transplanting or re-positioning of the read/write heads from the donor hard drives and re-alignment or replacing of the motor. Once the hard drive has been temporarily repaired in our dust-free sterile ISO-certified clean room using parts from the donor hard disk, we need to manually edit the disk and reconstruct the partition to create a usable drive image. After creating an image from the reconstructed partition, data will be recovered and copied onto our data servers and checked for integrity. This method involves substantial manual work; semi-automatic specialist software and hardware tools will have to be used in rebuilding a healthy partition from which data can be retrieved.
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