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shmokes:
Nope. Hitachi Deskstar 500 GB (I know :) ).

shmokes:
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll see if any of those work.

Xiaou2:
Cheffo is Right.

 What you are hearing is the "Click Of Death".

 Theres no way to save the drive.  The read heads are Toast.

 Imagine this... your driving down the road at 100mph, and you run smack into a 4ft diameter boulder.   Your car is trashed.   No software will fix this.

 The HD heads are smaller than the a human hair.  If the drive head hits a tiny spec of dust at high rpm.. its finished.

 Other failures such as strong vibration (stomping on the floor, crazy subwoofer..etc), can cause the heads to Crash into the high speed spinning platters.  Again, trashing the heads.

 Software recovery only works on things like drives with bad sectors, corrupted data, etc.
 

SavannahLion:
Oh wait? How the Hell did I miss that?! I hate being sick. You're trying to recover the drive itself? No no no the tools I mention are to recover data from a failing drive, not to recover the drive itself. If you're using a RAID and the drive dies, turn the HDD into a clock because that's all it's good for.

I'm deleting my other post. It's way off base....

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on November 28, 2011, 01:34:58 am ---Cheffo is Right.

--- End quote ---

And that is how you know that it isn't just a matter of opinion.

Xiaou2 is right.

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