I recently plugged one of my WD 200gig drives into an external usb enclosure and killed it. Now my drive plugged into a controller card or the ide controller of my pc makes a clicking sound during bootup. It continues for about 20 seconds then boots into XP off of the master drive. Ive even tried the drive in another machine. The drive has 2 partitions and neither is visable. The data is so so important and I cant find the backup that I thought I had. And Help.
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Drive died after pluging into USB enclosure.
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It sounds to me that if your 200 g drive clicks when trying to boot to it in another system also, then I would say the heads have crashed. This is NOT a good thing for drives. If the drive is just stuck ( do not strike it to get it going again) place it in the freezer for about 5 min. to "Shrink" the connected internal metal components and then it may free the stuck drive. You could also set this drive up as a secondary drive (temp. disconnect the cd player) and boot to your working master ( if your master is partitioned as NTFS you may see the troubled NTFS partition) if your master is FAT, you will not see NTFS anything without something like NTFSPRO)...Otherwise upon having a "BAD" drive there are places you can send your drive to recover the data.
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