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What can I do to check if my HDDs are damaged and save my HDDs data?

Recently mycomputer just died, just turned off, and my MB was fried up. I've borrowed my friends HDD rack for 3,5" HDDs but I couldn't get a read on them, and my older HDD of 250 GB gave clicking sound 3 times, then again, then again.. both of them were spinning inside, but Windows couldn't recognize them..I've bought nes SSD to put another Windows on it, and my friend installed Windows 8.1, upgraded it to Windows 10, clicking sound for 250 GB HDD was still there, but the 1 TB HDD was still silent as always. Then my friend tried to install Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate, but also the same thing happens and Windows can't recognize the two 3,5" HD drives, just the one SSD that was recognized only at the beginning of the installations of both Win 7, and 8.1 . I really don't know what to do now. Any suggestions? :/ Tnx in advance! :)

Update:

But I need the data from them..

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  • 5 years ago

    Formatting your hard drive will disable the broken parts. Make sure to uncheck "Quick Format"

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