Posted: November/07/2007 at 05:13 | IP Logged

Hi,

I have a Western Digital WD2500JB Caviar SE EIDE 250 GB Hard Drive that seems to have failed.

The drive was originally in an external housing. At first, it would spin and then stop with a funny clicking sound. Then it would not be detected at all. Later what I did was, took this drive out of the external drive housing and connected it as a slave drive in another computer. Almost I tried this in two systems. In one system, it spins up and also doesn’t make any funny noises, but isn’t detected. In the other system, it will spin up and stops as soon as Windows boots and is not detected.

So what shall I do now? How to recover the data from the drive when it is not getting detected?

Posted: February/20/2010 at 11:15 | IP Logged

The ticking sound on the hard drive is because your HDD is almost dead. And it is the mechanical error. So I can suggest you no data recovery software because there is no such software which can fix the physical error in the drive.

 If the data in the drive is essential then you still have a way to recovery them and that is to consult data recovery experts. I have one professional for you and they have 98% data recovery success rate and has served NASA too. I don’t think I can suggest you any better data recovery company then www.eprovided.com

http://www.eprovided.com/data-recovery-service/data-recovery .html

For HDD I think you need to buy a new hard drive.