I do realize that if the hdd is clicking, there is nothing I can do. The only place that I've heard of that can take care of this sort of thing is drive savers, but I heard they're extremely (like $1500). Does anyone know of a cheaper place?
Also, I have a problem with a flash drive. It's not reading, although the comp can recognize something is there. I tried unbuntu to see if that can read it, and no luck either. I need to get the files off of there. Any suggestions?
As for the flsah drive files
you can use dd_rescue to create an image of the drive and then try to recover the files
As for the HDD clicking there is one cheap way to go by and that is buy a new hard drive
they are very cheap and if this drive is not bad yet I would backup all my stuff from it already
Lots of places besides drive savers can do clean room recoveries. None are cheap tho. Make and model number of the drive would help as a starting point. On some models there can be multiple root causes for clicking.
Well, regardless of what the cause of the clicking is, the drive's not reading. If I can fix or get to the files on my own, please give me a few suggestions. Need to rescue some important D&D stuff off of there! Lol.
Loda, how will the program make an image if the computer can't even read it?
Make and model, is it identified in BIOS and how? Depending on the make and model it may be something you can DIY pretty inexpensively. DD works at the sector level to create a raw image file of the sectors of the flash drive which you can then run recovery software against to recover the files. Just because windows doesn't see it doesn't mean the drive cannot be read at a physical level.
cheapest I have found was $600 but that was just the head stuck or something of that nature according to them not that big of a deal compare to what they usually deal with i guess
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