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    Dreaded Clicking HD data recovery

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by boostjunkie92, Sep 8, 2011.

  1. boostjunkie92

    boostjunkie92 Notebook Consultant

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    So i want to save my data from my old 100gb hd but all it does is click very loudly from startup...seems like maybe the head has crashed.

    when i boot the laptop that the drive is in it gets hung up on the splash screen for several minutes, after that i was able to boot from a usb stick and boot spinrite to try and fix the errors and recover my data, i have performed the 6 hour option 2 recovery and im in the middle of the 24 hour deep scrub to see if that works, so far i have come up with no results.

    what can i do to get my data? and sending it to some over priced techs isnt an option for me.
     
    boostjunkie92, Sep 8, 2011
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