How to Recover Data From a Hard Drive (stuck Heads: Buzzing, Clicking, Etc)

Does your hard drive make a buzzing noise when you turn it on? Or does it make clicking noises or not spin up? Well, in this video I will show you how to fix this fairly common problem which is caused by the drive's heads getting stuck on the platters.

Comments

[Dennis R Levesque]

I haven't seen that graphical display of HDD sectors since the early Windows days. Where can you get that program to add to a newer computer? What device did you use for that error scan?

[abhaytk]

Wonderful, just want to ask you can I also recover my data from formatted hard drive?

[arvs27]

iMore Data Recovery is my favorite tool for recovering data. I have used it for 3 years and helped me recovered a lot of deleted files on my Dell computer.

Tutorial: http://www.imoresoft.com/data-recovery.html

[AlfredM1]

Here's how you recover data from a crashed or dead hard drive -

http://youtu.be/MFML3vsX3BM

[tonyo3]

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[uy.jasmine]

This is very helpful. Thank you so much for creating this video info :)

[rimar2000]

Thanks for sharing this useful info.

[MrOddjob]

Excellent information and a very well presented Instructable. Thanks for sharing.