Data Recovery
for Hard Drives making Clicking or Grinding Noises
Common Symptom: Hard drive
makes a continuous clicking noise pattern, grinding
sound or smokes.
Diagnosis: Hard drive has
physical damage and needs clean-room work. Professional
data recovery required.
When a hard drive clicks, ticks,
or grinds it's a sure sign the drive is physically bad.
It is very important the hard drive be turned off
immediately. Leaving it on will eventually make
all the data unrecoverable.
Clickings sounds are generally the
result of bad heads being unable to calibrate with the
media servo tracks, which makes the drive keep resetting.
A grinding sound is usually the result of a head crash.
As one of the more worse scenarios, if not turned off,
will cause unrecoverable damage.
Don't risk losing your data!
Don't bang on the drive or leave it running. Don't run
software on it. Definitely don't put it in the freezer!
(We hear people doing this all the time.) The drive
should be turned off at the first sign of can noise.
Trust your data to a professional
company such as Total Recall that has the proven experience
to get your data back safely in a clean environment.
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recovery estimate
for more information about our data recovery services.
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