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?