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But my hard drive is making a clicking sound, can you still recover it?

April 26, 2017recover sound

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But my hard drive is making a clicking sound, can you still recover it?

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Amy Smith Posted

Hi there,

The clicking sound is called ‘death click’, which means that your hard drive is dying.However,there are still hopes for data recovery.
If it shows up in ‘My Computer’ as a drive letter(like E: drive) but you can’t access it,I would first try to recover the data on it with a data recovery program to avoid losing them.
I have succeed with Tenorshare Data Recovery. It can recover data after deeply scanning your hard drive to look for lost data due to drives crash and drive ‘not recognized’ issue.
If the hard drive can’t be detected,you can try this way.Put the hdd in a zip-lock bag and put it in the freezer for overnight. Then while it’s still cold plug it into the computer and you may be able to view it in ‘my computer’. And run the recovery program to recover your data on it.
If it fails, you will have to go to a recovery office but let’s hope not because it will cost you a lot of money and whether they can recover the data or not is not guarantee.
This article will help.
How To Recover Lost Data From Crashed Hard Drive?
http://www.dbuggr.com/marcwilliams2011/recover-lost-data-crashed-hard-drive/