Retrieving Data

[wakkoguy]

My hard drive had died! I ordered my replacement from Western Digital. However, I can not retrieve my data from my old HD. Whenever I attach it to a power source all I get is clicking sounds and the computer does not even see the drive. How can I retrieve the data?

 

[pat]

From your backups...

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[4Ryan6]

Ouch! ET Phone Home!

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[4Ryan6]

You'll need to download a diagnostics disk creator from the bad HDDs manufacturer website, and see if running a full diagnostics drive restore can repair the drive enough to recover some of your data, you have probably lost some of your data for sure, could be everything, but a diagnostics drive restore will remap around the bad sectors and usually let you recover at least the good sectors.





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[4Ryan6]

You love rubbing salt in their wounds don't you!

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[pat]

We've all had to learn the hard way sometime


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[wakkoguy]

I have the Western Digital diagnostics disk that runs right at boot up but it can't read the hard drive. All I hear is clicking.

 

[dhlucke]

You win some, you lose some. I just lost 180GB.

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[4Ryan6]

Sounds like a dead issue, I hope you haven't lost any real important data, because only a professional recovery service could probably get it back for you. Sorry.

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