External HDD is making buzzing/clicking noise...
 

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+-...mega&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?

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?

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.

Thanks, let you know what comes of this.

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?

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

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

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

Would probably do what G suggested.

It's just the GM.