Desktop fell, harddrive with constant clicking sound. Not detected by computer

**Lucius** · June 14th, 2012 05:05 PM

Guys help! Do you know any professional who can still recover the files in my harddrive?

Thing is, I don't have a backup with my external and laptop.

so my last hope is to recover everything in my drive.

**ecneret** · June 14th, 2012 05:15 PM

sorry wala ako alam kundi mga computer shops sa mga malls... payo lang, make sure na nandon ka pag nire-recover files mo, mahirap na baka may mga confidential o importante ka na files o SCANDAL e mayari ka pa...

**Just** · June 14th, 2012 05:41 PM

baka lumuwag lang yung plug ng hdd nyan. try to open it and check kung loosen lang. madali lang naman tingnan yan.

**Lucius** · June 14th, 2012 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by Just

baka lumuwag lang yung plug ng hdd nyan. try to open it and check kung loosen lang. madali lang naman tingnan yan.

Checked already. Kinabit na din sa ibang computer, still with that annoying clicking sound

**marg** · June 14th, 2012 05:49 PM

Rapid Data RecoveryT: 830 8468
Google ka na din "data recovery philippines"

**ghosthunter** · June 14th, 2012 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by Lucius

Guys help! Do you know any professional who can still recover the files in my harddrive?

Thing is, I don't have a backup with my external and laptop.

so my last hope is to recover everything in my drive.

Clicking sound may indicate the read/write head was damaged in the fall. It require professional recovery services.

**wowiesy** · June 14th, 2012 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by marg

Rapid Data RecoveryT: 830 8468
Google ka na din "data recovery philippines"

in linux.. there's a data recovery program... at least it worked for me on sd drive and thumb drive.. tipong yung mga pics na pagkatagal tagal ng nadelete ay na recover pa nya...

not sure if it will also work on hard disks though... also depends on how your hdd was partitioned.. kung mababasa ba by nature ng linux OS

**1D4LV** · June 19th, 2012 05:54 PM

i dont think it is possible to recover data from that. hardware problem na yan eh.... baka misaligned na....
the only possibility to recover data from that is to send it to the manufacturer, kaya lang you will be spending a premium...
kung valuable data, isipin mo kung worth it.... kung hindi, forget about it and learn your lessons.

probably it would be much better for you to use the cloud (e.g. dropbox or microsoft skydrive) as your backup or primary storage.

**boybi** · June 19th, 2012 06:28 PM

Speaking of cloud, ultra reliable na ba mga cloud storage now? Aren't these being attacked by hackers?

**ghosthunter** · June 19th, 2012 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by boybi

Speaking of cloud, ultra reliable na ba mga cloud storage now? Aren't these being attacked by hackers?

I would rather use HDD RAID 1 (mirroring) than use the "Cloud" as my storage backup, especially for large and sensitive files.

**oj88** · June 19th, 2012 07:13 PM

Everybody's easing into cloud storage, whether they know it or not. Remember when most webmail mailbox sizes were a measly 1-2MB in the 90s? Now, you get 10GB, easy.

Specific to cloud storage, I use DropBox (5.8GB), iCloud (5GB), Google Drive (5GB), and SkyDrive (25GB). All free.

That said, I also have my 10TB (5x 2TB) Homeserver to fulfill my family's PC backup and media storage needs.

Portable documents, I keep in my 32GB USB thumbdrive... which is synced to my notebook's Briefcase and backed up to my homeserver.

I'm a data hoard. :D

BTT: If you're adventurous and you have or can find a spare similar drive, do a head swap. Hard Drive Data Recovery - Western Digital Head Swap - YouTube

**ghosthunter** · June 19th, 2012 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by oj88

Everybody's easing into cloud storage, whether they know it or not. Remember when most webmail mailbox sizes were a measly 1-2MB in the 90s? Now, you get 10GB, easy.

Specific to cloud storage, I use DropBox (5.8GB), iCloud (5GB), Google Drive (5GB), and SkyDrive (25GB). All free.

That said, I also have my 10TB (5x 2TB) Homeserver to fulfill my family's PC backup and media storage needs.

Portable documents, I keep in my 32GB USB thumbdrive... which is synced to my notebook's Briefcase and backed up to my homeserver.

I'm a data hoard. :D

BTT: If you're adventurous and you have or can find a spare similar drive, do a head swap. Hard Drive Data Recovery - Western Digital Head Swap - YouTube

The only "cloud" service I use is my email. The rest is still good old hardware.

Honestly speaking, the CLOUD is only as good as your data connection. Given the crappy speeds, so-so reliability and non-universality of wifi access, the CLOUD is still not as good an experience as compared to Korea or elsewhere with fast internet speeds.

**oj88** · June 19th, 2012 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by ghosthunter

The only "cloud" service I use is my email. The rest is still good old hardware.

Honestly speaking, the CLOUD is only as good as your data connection. Given the crappy speeds, so-so reliability and non-universality of wifi access, the CLOUD is still not as good an experience as compared to Korea or elsewhere with fast internet speeds.

A NAS or an in-premise server or storage will still have a purpose.

To be more specific, I'm not talking about uploading/downloading GB-sized files like movies and full SQL databases over the Internet. Just small files that you want synced-up, say, with your different mobile devices. In which case, cloud storage works very well. DropBox and SkyDrive are such examples. I can have the same files available on my laptop, home PC, work PC, iPad, or my Adroid phone. All done over the Internet. I rarely need more than a couple of files at a time. File sizes range from a few hundred KBs to several MBs at most.

To be totally honest, I seldom had to use my 32GB USB thumbdrive because of cloud storage.

Of course, having an unlimited data plan helps. :D

**hein** · June 19th, 2012 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by 1D4LV

i dont think it is possible to recover data from that. hardware problem na yan eh.... baka misaligned na....
the only possibility to recover data from that is to send it to the manufacturer, kaya lang you will be spending a premium...
kung valuable data, isipin mo kung worth it.... kung hindi, forget about it and learn your lessons.

Daming data recovery companies dito sa PH. Just google it.

**erj22** · June 19th, 2012 08:57 PM

tignan mo baka pwede pa ma RMA yung hard disk mo. anything na nagclicking sound ang HD, good luck. professional service kailangan kung irecover yung files sa ganyang condition. try mo lang... lagay mo hard disk mo sa zip bag, tapos lagay mo sa freezer. overnight siguro. then try mo ikabit. mas maganda kung may external hard disk case para sa HD mo para mas madali. pag nakilala at mabasa ang contents, backup mo na agad. kaso, this is a 50-50 chance.

**poorprince** · June 19th, 2012 09:47 PM

not an expert but i had similar experiences, mixed results. One instance my HD cant be detected in windows, downloaded some data recovery software from the net, and it was able to detect the HD. From that software i was able to recover some files, however some were already badly corrupted. I also did the freeze your HD, dropping the HD, shaking it etc, but it didnt work.

im quite sure that there are proffessional data recovery services out there, i think they charge per MB/GB. goodluck sir!

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