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Originally Posted by DJ_Greg
Does anyone have knowledge of how to recover data from a hard drive that my computer won't recognize (and that now makes a lot of noise when it's plugged in)? I haven't taken it to a professional yet, and I'm afraid of what it might cost...
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I used a program called Power Data Recovery (
www.powerdatarecovery.com) to successfully recover all the data from an external drive that had lost it's formatting in Windows. However, Windows was still recognizing this drive, so it was simply a software failure and not a hardware failure. In your case, the noise you are hearing would indicate a hardware failure. If it's just an electronic failure and you can get that repaired so that your computer can recognize the drive then a disk recovery program could work to retrieve the data. If it's a mechanical failure that has caused a head crash then the only option I know of that might work is to have a professional service disassemble the drive and magnetically lift the data off of the disk platters. This is a very expensive process, and I've never actually had it done myself.