Harddrive 'click of death' aka Home Harddrive Recovery

This drive's platters were seized and would not spin up.

1- I carefully opened the cover, and powered up the drive.
2- I gave the platters a little twist and they spun up.
3- I quickly copied the data normally to another disk.
4- The drive died 90% thru copy process. 90% is pretty good.
5- don't try this at home unless you are ready to scrap your drive and lose all data. This is an absolute last resort.

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[LinkDaHylian5002]

...just like a metronome. (Only this make people cry.)

[reditus2]

Drives do spin in air. if you look at a HD, there is a 'breath hole' so the air can expand and contract when the temperature changes in the HD. the hole has a series of filters that filter the air because the air has to have NO foreign contaminants. Eg, dust

[Inimbrium]

Actaully some older SCSI Seagate drives used to go up to 15000 rpm. They had smaller platters than normal so they could spin faster.

[Blaster7492]

WOW^^

[csarivra]

did it make this sound before you put it in the freezer????

[wwallender]

to many fliped bits

[pogodrummer]

hmmm go to a specialized center if ur data is important

[dickkwikkwek]

Yea, that freezer trick is known to work sometimes

[dickcheney6]

I don't understand what causes this. If everything is able to move, why is it not functional, is the actual HEAD fried (not the movement) ?

[xBloodXGusherx]

wow. So thats that fucking noise computers make when they start up or take a long time to load something.

[pspking597]

this just happend to my laptop 2 min ago but is fine now