And you will make it so much worse, that the cost of a professional recovery might be over $1,000 instead of just a few hundred. It will get worse with what you are doing. Get it to a professional if it has your whole life. Don't wait, don't ask somebody else, don't second guess. What you are doing is absolutely wrong and very destructive. All you have to do is look through any given page of items on this sub, and you will find your answer. Take a look at our 3 page document on the causes of hard drive failure to get a better understanding of the types of hard drive fault that can lead to data loss.Absolutely stop everything you are doing and unplug it right now.
This is a common problem on old hard drives and we would have been able to recover the data had the owner not tinkered around with the hard drive. The enquirer had a Western Digital hard drive, but performing the same actions as they did on any hard drive will have the same effect: you will lose your data and there will be no chance of recovery.īefore the owner tried to fix the hard drive it was making ticking noise. Unfortunately there is no longer any chance of recovering your data. There is a scratch on the platter the size of the T8 screwdriver” – Oh dear, what’s happened to your hard drive is very similar to what happens when a hard drive has a head crash. “…and when searching through sticker on hard drive the screwdriver went through and hit the platter. Read more about ticking hard drives, with a video example here: This is a serious problem needing clean room attention in order to get the data from the drive. The symptoms of your hard drive failure (‘tick tack noise’) are indicative that it has a head fault. “Attempted to remove cover screws” – Why are you trying to remove the cover of your hard drive? Removing the cover will only make the job of recovering the drive’s data more difficult. Swapping hard drive controller boards doesn’t work and here’s why: This is because the components on the hard drive’s PCB are unique to the drive that they’re fitted to.
“Traded PCB with another, no change” – No, there won’t be any change. Let’s take a look at the enquiry in greater detail What are the possibility of recovery and costs. There is a scratch on the platter the size of the T8 screwdriver. Attempted to remove cover screws and when searching through sticker on hard drive the screwdriver went through and hit the platter. This customer enquiry is a fine example of what not to do when you hard drive stops working… Call our Freephone number 08 to discuss your broken hard drive. Our success rates are exceptional and we offer a no-recovery no-fee service on almost all types of hard drive, and we will let you know how much the recovery will cost before we go ahead.
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Your well intentioned efforts will make the situation worse.ĭata Clinic use advanced software and hardware techniques to recover data from all types of hard drive failure. If the data on your hard drive has value then do-it-yourself data recovery is a really bad idea, because to put it bluntly, you don’t really know what you’re doing.
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