Data Recovery Help

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Hello Warriors

I have an external hard drive that stopped working. It just started making a clicking sound and my computer is not reconizing it. My computer tech guy tried to retrive the data off of it, but couldn't . He said I would have to send it to a data recovery specialist. I called a few places but very expensive.They are asking $500-$1500.

Does anyone know of an inexpensive data recovery company ?

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  • No such thing. Good luck to you.
  • Yeah, data recovery isn't cheap... sorry. Estimate the value of everything on the hard drive and how much money it can make you if you save it.
  • The clicking sound is called 'the sound of death'.So your hard drive is probably dead.However there are still hopes for hard drive data recovery.

    Put the hard drive in a plastic bag to be compatible for the freezer. Freezing sometimes works to revive a dying hard drive, at least for a short time(Probable just about 20 minutes), but be sure that the bag is sealed tightly so that condensation and ice crystals don't form. Put it in your freezer for 24 hours that will do the trick. While it's still cold, plug it into your computer.And you may be able to view it in 'my computer'. And you may act quickly,because you may only have 20 minutes to recover your data off it and after that the hard drive is completely dead.

    If it fails, you will have to go to a recovery office where supply data recovery service but let's hope not because it will cost you a lot of money and whether they can recover data is not guaranteed.
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    Data Recovery Help

    Hello Warriors I have an external hard drive that stopped working. It just started making a clicking sound and my computer is not reconizing it. My computer tech guy tried to retrive the data off of it, but couldn't . He said I would have to send it to a data recovery specialist. I called a few places but very expensive.They are asking $500-$1500.