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External HD not spinning up - costly if possible to recover?
I have a Lacie 500GB external HD that won't spin up - it just tick-tick-ticks and never whirrs up to life. I can feel the platter freely spin when I rock it back and forth so I'm sure it's not seized. Anyone have experience with recovering data from such a situation and, above all, what kind of price would a disk recovery cost me?
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- Bon GartLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
When the controller inside of a hard drive goes, you need the same controller to mate the platens with. Taking apart a hard drive requires a clean room.... one that is completely free of dust. The platens are removed, and put inside another casing, and your data is recovered, sector by sector.
This why such a job can run into the THOUSANDS of dollars in come cases.
- 1 decade ago
Tick tick tick is the sound of a dead hard drive. It'll cost way too much to have the data recovered. If not under warranty you'll need to go shopping. Sorry!
