External HDD is making buzzing/clicking noise...

[James Steele]

I bought a 1Tb external hard drive about 6 months ago, and I turned it on after not using it for awhile and it is making a loud buzzing noise. Originally, it would pick up the drive but it would say an I/O Error occurred and none of the data could be loaded/picked up. I tried it again today, and now it won't pick it up at all. I have all my music/photos/etc. from my old PC on there and I am wondering is there anyway to salvage the drive or is there any way I can get the data off of it and put it on a new HDD? Thanks in advance.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Iomega+-+Prestige+1TB+External+USB+2.0+Hard+Drive/8908612.p?id=1216424110118&skuId=8908612&st=iomega&cp=1&lp=4

that is the hard drive (I even bought it from best buy!)

I don't have the receipt, but I am wondering if I could maybe get this taken care of through warranty?

[James Steele]

Fuck, I should have read the reviews before I bought it on sale back in September. Apparently this brand is shit. At the end of the day, I just want my fucking data off of it. Would it be impossible without paying 100s of dollars or what have you?

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Recover as much as you can with this tool:

http://www.pcinspector.de/Default.htm?language=1

After that, run "chkdsk /f" from the run prompt (windows key+R) and after checks have been run, try and recover the remaining data.

Try a recovery before running chkdsk, because chkdsk can fuck up file systems more than fixing sometimes.

[G]

I bought a cheap Iomega external drive and it turned out to be complete crap. I took the drive out of it and plugged it into my desktop and it works just fine. Try that with yours, it could be a case issue.

[James Steele]

Thanks, let you know what comes of this.

[James Steele]

Recover as much as you can with this tool:

http://www.pcinspector.de/Default.htm?language=1

After that, run "chkdsk /f" from the run prompt (windows key+R) and after checks have been run, try and recover the remaining data.

Try a recovery before running chkdsk, because chkdsk can fuck up file systems more than fixing sometimes.

I ran the program and it didn't pick up any external drives. Only the internal ones.

Also, I tried unplugging it and trying every USB port on my tower and it makes the "du-ding" noise that it picked it up and it shows up in the "Safely Remove Hardware" menu, but nothing is coming up anywhere else for it.

What does that mean?

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Does it not even come up "drive needs formatting" or anything like that?

[James Steele]

Does it not even come up "drive needs formatting" or anything like that?

I hear the "ba-ding" noise and thats it.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Sounds like there's a dodgy connection. It's recognising the enclosure, but not the drive.

Would probably do what G suggested.

[Xero]

I hear the "ba-ding" noise and thats it.

It's just the GM.