nothing you can do with the click of death. either a bad pcb, or bad heads... either way, not fixable by means of us. you need a clean room, and heads off a donor drive, but replacing them is a pain, because they are so sensitive.
if they are 7200.11 or 12 drives they had issues with firmware. sounds like bad heads on one, or it could be the power supply ( some seagate externals had that problem ). don't trust maxtor though ( they use refurbuished seagaet drives now ). they are STM drives... (seagate technology maxtor). my self has had no issues with WDC at all. it stinks that i was in a JBOD when it died. what i would do is get a 1.5tb mirror case and your protected in case one dies.
I am a MAC, and don't know what the click of death sounds like. I also don't duplicate important data across multiple drives because I think consumer grade external HDD's are reliable.
serial-to-ttl and try until you kill the drive completely, what possible data that is so important you have on only one hdd? Always use cd/dvd for backup, properly stored they are far more realible solution for backup.
Void waranty but open the enclosure and try the drive directly attached, sometimes psu is giving low voltage and drive is failing like that ( more noise ) but at least you will see if the drive is found in bios ( BSY or LBA0 ) or it may show with generic chip name ( also fixable )
According to the IT pro at work... "The arm is not moving... I guess the pin dropped out, and so it can not ever read that disk again! Disk is most likely okay, but it is a totally unreadable drive! Need to put the disk in another drive to get the info-" ... Yeah, I'm not up for doing that myself so... all the info is safely sitting on the disk stored in the hard drive, stored in my desk drawer until prices for swapping it out come WAY WAY down.
@crewcabz@tieftrunk - Nope, I have no idea how to fix it and no one has gotten back to me. Quotes from DriveSavers and others are over $2000. Would rather avoid that.
Hi there, thank you very much for posting this video. With clicking drives, it is always very difficult to diagnose. If the drive was dropped though, then it probably isn't the circuit board.
It might also help to test the drives in a different enclosure.
nothing you can do with the click of death. either a bad pcb, or bad heads... either way, not fixable by means of us. you need a clean room, and heads off a donor drive, but replacing them is a pain, because they are so sensitive.
c0rrupts3ct0r555 2 months ago
if they are 7200.11 or 12 drives they had issues with firmware. sounds like bad heads on one, or it could be the power supply ( some seagate externals had that problem ). don't trust maxtor though ( they use refurbuished seagaet drives now ). they are STM drives... (seagate technology maxtor). my self has had no issues with WDC at all. it stinks that i was in a JBOD when it died. what i would do is get a 1.5tb mirror case and your protected in case one dies.
c0rrupts3ct0r555 4 months ago
I am a MAC, and don't know what the click of death sounds like. I also don't duplicate important data across multiple drives because I think consumer grade external HDD's are reliable.
pandora655 5 months ago
I am a MAC and don't know what the click of death sounds like...
pandora655 5 months ago
My hard drive started to click aswell...
i slapped it
...It works twice as fast now
Cr4zykill3r007 10 months ago
serial-to-ttl and try until you kill the drive completely, what possible data that is so important you have on only one hdd? Always use cd/dvd for backup, properly stored they are far more realible solution for backup.
Void waranty but open the enclosure and try the drive directly attached, sometimes psu is giving low voltage and drive is failing like that ( more noise ) but at least you will see if the drive is found in bios ( BSY or LBA0 ) or it may show with generic chip name ( also fixable )
DSetekh 1 year ago
According to the IT pro at work... "The arm is not moving... I guess the pin dropped out, and so it can not ever read that disk again! Disk is most likely okay, but it is a totally unreadable drive! Need to put the disk in another drive to get the info-" ... Yeah, I'm not up for doing that myself so... all the info is safely sitting on the disk stored in the hard drive, stored in my desk drawer until prices for swapping it out come WAY WAY down.
crewcabz 1 year ago
Same sounds... Barracuda 7200... 300gig. So far no info on a fix!
crewcabz 1 year ago
@crewcabz @tieftrunk - Nope, I have no idea how to fix it and no one has gotten back to me. Quotes from DriveSavers and others are over $2000. Would rather avoid that.
tbanucci 1 year ago
I have the exact same problem.. did you find out how to fix it?
tieftrunk 1 year ago
Hi there, thank you very much for posting this video. With clicking drives, it is always very difficult to diagnose. If the drive was dropped though, then it probably isn't the circuit board.
It might also help to test the drives in a different enclosure.
pcbsolution 1 year ago
@pcbsolution I also tried my drive in a new enclosure - same noise, and the new enclosure immediately determined the drive was bad.
tieftrunk 1 year ago