Seagate External Hard Drive Clicking Noises
Recover data from seagate external Hard Drive?
The other day my Seagate External Hard Drive stopped working all of a sudden and now it doesn’t mount on my laptop. It is now making a clicking noise every time I try to use it. I have almost 400GB of stuff on it and loosing the data is not an option. How do I fix it ?
Get another 400GB HDD (that is empty), boot into a linux liveCD and use DD_rescue (basically DD, but specifically for data recovery) to copy over the data (will take a LONG time), the command would be something like: sudo ddrescue /dev/hda dev/sda, I would suggest downloading the Ubuntu LiveCD to do this, here is a guide:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-do-i-save-recover-data-from-crashed-disks-with-dd-and-ddrescue-command.html
p.s it should say on the back of your HDD that clicking is normal.