Hi,
My Western Digital SATA HDD was working perfectly fine two days ago until I turned on my desktop yesterday, the HDD was making a clicking noise. I researched that it meant my HDD was pretty much screwed/going to be screwed. It isnt detected on the BIOS setup menu and when I start the computer I can hear it spinning, then it clicks twice and spinning stops. It then retries the spinning and clicks twice again. This happens 4 times.
I already tried it on another desktop, switched sata cables, tried another power supply but it still kept clicking and my desktop was not able to detect it so I couldnt backup my things on it.
So I searched the internet on how to fix it and came across the 'Freezing' method.
I was wondering if anyone could tell me if this method would work in my situation? And I'm willing to take the risk that it would completely screw up my data.
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you =)
My Western Digital SATA HDD was working perfectly fine two days ago until I turned on my desktop yesterday, the HDD was making a clicking noise. I researched that it meant my HDD was pretty much screwed/going to be screwed. It isnt detected on the BIOS setup menu and when I start the computer I can hear it spinning, then it clicks twice and spinning stops. It then retries the spinning and clicks twice again. This happens 4 times.
I already tried it on another desktop, switched sata cables, tried another power supply but it still kept clicking and my desktop was not able to detect it so I couldnt backup my things on it.
So I searched the internet on how to fix it and came across the 'Freezing' method.
I was wondering if anyone could tell me if this method would work in my situation? And I'm willing to take the risk that it would completely screw up my data.
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you =)