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hard drive issue

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eric7777

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Mar 16, 2008
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Dropped my external hard drive a few weeks back. It is an IOMEGA external hard drive. It stopped working immediately. It now makes a clicking sound. I took it out of the case, it is just an IDE drive. Put it in the computer, and same thing....clicking.

The logic board looks fine. Made sure all the screws were tight. Opened it up, and the arms moves across the platter and then back. Keeps doing that over and over etc.

Visually everything looks fine. Any ideas? Replace the logic board?

I have lots of data on there that is NOT backed up. :oops:
 
never open a hard drive (unless in a cleanroom and u know what ur doing
u had a headcrash, either the heads are damaged or the track 0 is done, if u have really important data on it a rescue-lab might be able 2 help u, but thats costly.
if not just get another harddisk for the case.
 
Agreed, you probably caused irrecoverable damage to the platters, by opening the drive, as dust particles or any other air born particle can land on the platter and scratch it.

Since you dropped it and it made a clicking noise, your best bet is now a professional recovery service as the drive will probably need to have the arm replaced.



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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
 
You could also try the options listed here:

thread751-1458861

Tony

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