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Video doesn't work.

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I'll guess it's a hard drive? If it's a hard drive and clicking, then it's only recoverable if windows recognises it, if it doesn't then your only real option is a data recovery company which can cost a LOT.

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Video doesn't work.

I'll guess it's a hard drive? If it's a hard drive and clicking, then it's only recoverable if windows recognises it, if it doesn't then your only real option is a data recovery company which can cost a LOT.

What is making a weird noise... I NEED TO KNOW! vid is broken

ohh .. no video Q.Q

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Yeah thats the hard drive failing to spin up then, unfortunately there's no easy way of recovering the data, you could perhaps try getting a USB enclosure for it, and trying it at different angles, laying down flat for exmaple, it's rare and unlikely but sometimes that has allowed a hard drive to spin up long enough to get valuable data off.

 

Otherwise it's off to an expensive data recovery centre if the data is that important.

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Send it to drive savers because that drive be failing. 

 

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Drive is trying to spin up, but can't.

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

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You're gonna have to get that to a drive recovery specialist, it's dead.

You cannot fix a hard drive by yourself, not unless you have access to a clean room and a lot of very expensive hardware and software.

And unless the data on that drive is critical and of utmost importance, the sheer cost of recovery is probably going to be more than the value of the data itself. The last I checked it was at least several hundred pounds/dollars to recover a single drive, so you might be better off just cutting your losses and replacing the drive.

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