I dropped my laptop. and I think I may have damaged the hard drive. Clicking noise, no drive read during boot-up...
I assume its over for the HD, so how can I recover the data from the HD?
If the arm is broken... even Steve Gibson's work of magic couldn't will it back to life.grc.com > spinrite
Thats what the clicking sound is, and because it isn't running (Sometimes a clicking sound can be something else), its 100% the arm being broken.I did not read him mention that though.
That is even more likely to kill the drive, and really shouldn't be done by someone who doesn't have experience with the hardware.I've had success recovering several clicking drives by opening up the case and setting the arm back to zero position, yes it's best to do it in a 'clean room', 'white room' blablabla... but i've had a laptop fujitsu drive running with the lid off just long enough to get data back/recovered.
Home Depot/Lowes has a great star driver tool that comes with various sizes for opening one up for around $7 - a handy tool especially for macs
I dropped my laptop. and I think I may have damaged the hard drive. Clicking noise, no drive read during boot-up...
I assume its over for the HD, so how can I recover the data from the HD?
Fans and cd/dvd drives don't click the same way when they're broken. Fans will usually have a grinding noise, and cd/dvd drives will struggle to run (They will usually spin even if broken, or attempt to spin).Are you 100% positive its the hard drive clicking? it could be your cd/dvd drive a broken fan etc.
If you are comfortable with taking the bottom off your laptop then I may be able to help you.
1. Unplug your laptop and remove the battery.
2. After the power has been disconnected from ALL power sources, press the "Power On" button to drain all the electricity currently sitting in your machine. Your Power/HDD LED indicator may flash once, ignore this.
3. Start by flipping your laptop upside down and take out all the screws necessary to open the laptop case.
4. Once you have the case open it may be necessary to remove a few componets to get to your HDD and its Plugs.
5. Disconnect your HDD power source and data transfer cable (also know as IDE or SATA depending on how old your machine is).
6. Once your HDD fully disconnected, feel free to "shake your hdd like a spray paint can." Under normal circumstances you can shake your hdd all day and you wont hear any nosies (loose broken parts) on the inside. If you dont hear any noises from shaking it, you MAY still have a good HDD.
7. While the inside of your computer is exposed, further examen it for a broken mother board and other broken parts.
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****** Attempt those steps at your own risk***
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If you determine that a different part in your laptop is malfunctioning see if you can order that part and have it replaced. Once again you may or may not be able to order parts for your laptop depending on its age.
Hope this helps,
Andrew
That is even more likely to kill the drive, and really shouldn't be done by someone who doesn't have experience with the hardware.
From him asking for help, you can assume he doesn't know much about hardware. Are you really going to suggest someone who possibly doesn't have much knowledge of hardware do something that could potentially damage their drive?nah, try it sometime, you'd be surprised
No. I'm telling you.From him asking for help, you can assume he doesn't know much about hardware. Are you really going to suggest someone who possibly doesn't have much knowledge of hardware do something that could potentially damage their drive?
Rattling a hard drive hoping that it'll get fixed has a much lower success rate then methods I can do at my work, or even at my house .No. I'm telling you.
Whilst I cannot answer for the data... I would suggest your replacement is an SSD, considering notebook.I assume its over for the HD, so how can I recover the data from the HD?
I don't recommend SSDs as once your drive dies, all your data goes with it.Whilst I cannot answer for the data... I would suggest your replacement is an SSD, considering notebook.
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