This is what I've done in the past:
Seal the HD inside a plastic bag in the driest environment you can find.
Leave it overnite in the freezer (there are other opinions, I'm just stating
what/how has worked for me)
Have a puter ready and much better if you can hot-plug the thing.
Have enough space for the FULL drive and get ddrescue or dd-rescue (they
*ARE* different, and I have to research it every time).
Lite candles, do your prayers, find you a goat to sacrifice, pull the HD out
of the plastic bag, wrap it in paper towel in case you get some condensation
and go for it. Sometimes I keep it super-cool wrapped around some of those
freezing gels. I have never used dry ice but I have thought about it. The
explanation has to do with some internal tolerances being reduced to the
point that it temporarily functions. I try to disturb the drive as little
as possible during the copy. All this may be just VooDoo and sorcery, but
again, it has worked for me.
YMMV...
ET
PS: Free advice, can't sue me... :)
Eric Cope writes:
> Hi all,
> I have a Western Digital 2.5" hard drive that spins up, but makes a
> terrible clicking sound at approximately 1Hz. The clicking is bad enough
> you can feel it when holding the drive. I did some reading on line, and its
> beyond my skillset. Does anyone know if affordable drive recovery? The data
> on this disk is not worth thousands, but may be worth 100s.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Eric
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