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Originally Posted by nightshade Hi glsammy,the read heads had some sort of collision inside, hence the demented clicking.I tried to upload to my sons m/c as well as the usb external drive (I had this happen 3 times on my first new machine ) the data is there but it will take a lot of money to recover by a specialist. Oh well! |
It might be feasible to take the drive apart and put the disk guts of the drive into a working drives body. I agree its virtually certain that this would be prohibitively expensive to have done but you could have a crack yourself - i mean if the drive is otherwise dead what have you got to lose (apart from your temper
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pointers for doing this are to do it in as dust free environment as possible, to earth yourself to ensure you are not statically charged, and not to touch the disk parts with bare hands.
Ive done it once myself and the drive functioned (sort of) for a day before dying permanently but this gave me time to lift off and back up the important data.
see
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000840067578/ for more info on how someone with your problem solved it.