I dropped my hard drive and I normally back up but there is some stuff I didn’t. It’s freezing my computer and I just need a place that can safely copy or something its making a clicking noise and im freaking out there is some newer stuff on there I can’t lose
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Was it an external USB drive or a bare HDD? Is the clicking noise periodic, like occurring every half second?
A periodic clicking noise sounds like the read write heat unable to position itself, so it reset its position and tries to find the hdd track again, which creates this clicking noise.
If it is an external drive, there may be a chance that only the internal to external controller is damaged and you can remove the internal HDD from it and plug that in as is.
A more serious malfunction would be a damaged read head. Unfortunately, this type of recovery will require opening of the drive and replacing the read head assembly. This usually isn’t cheaper than 200,000 yen.
SSD or spinning disk? Spinning disk?
It sounds like the dreaded clicking noise of death, you may still recover files by sending it to a specialist. They have clean labs that can recover files from damaged drives if the media itself not damaged. It could cost anywhere from 5-15man depends on damage, size of data and the place you send it to.
I ended up finding a specialist nearby he said there is a 95$ chance he can save it. Thankfully if he can its only the last 3 weeks I hadn’t backed up yet.
After watching a video I wasn’t comfortable taking it apart as there wasn’t a sata connector.
I ended up finding him through the military facebook pages.
Future reference is Axiom in sagahimara and he is pretty affordable