laptop hard drive clicks but no access

breckrider · Joined: Feb 17, 2004 Posts: 88

I've taken the hard drive out of the original laptop and put it in an external case. When I try to access it all I get is a clicking sound. Is there a way to access the data without sending it off to an expensive data recovery company?

zlim · Joined: Mar 11, 2005 Posts: 2636

Why did you remove the hd from the laptop?

The clicking you hear is probably the read head. If it was doing this for awhile, you should have grabbed your data before it died.

drwho07 · Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 1546 Location: Central FL, USA

That's well known as the "Click of Death".
The first time you heard it, you should have tried to salvage your most important data. usually they give you some warning before they go out all together.

That sound is the read head positioner, moving the read/write head to try to locate the data. The data may not be recoverable at all, even by a recovery specialist.

Contact a data recovery company and see what they say about it.

good luck,
The Doctor Cool

goretsky · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:32 pm Post subject:

Hello,

Does the laptop hard disk drive in the external hard disk drive enclosure have enough power to spin up? Some enclosures and combinations require an external power source (either a second USB cable or a separate power transformer) to be connected in order to spin up the hard disk drive in the enclosure.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky