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molton
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11 years ago

ever have luck recovering a clicking HDD by freezing it?

I have a 1 TB drive I (used to) backup my projects onto, I turned it on today and all it does is click. Incidentally, it started having a weird single click on startup, starting about a month ago, I ...
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molton
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11 years ago
Cool nosys70, if so thanks :) Unfortunately for me after 36 hours of freezing, the drive spins up fine like before, then the clicking starts. I tried smacking it on all 6 sides while clicking and I even tried shaking it really hard while plugged in with no results. Oh well, I didn't really have my hopes up that this would work anyway.