Is your External Hard Drive Clicking?

Five Star Data Recovery
2 min readJan 19, 2019

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If you’re hearing strange clicking sounds coming out of your external hard drive, then you have a problem. The next step is the most important step you will take in rescuing your hard drive. Immediately, power off your drive and bring it in to a data recovery professional. Keep in mind that a mechanical hard drive has sensitive read/write heads inside that move back and forth, reading your data off the platters. The longer your computer is stressing your read/write heads to read the data off the platters, the more damage you’re creating. The read/write heads will eventually end up scratching your platters creating media damage which can lead to little to no success in recovering your data.

At Five Star Data Recovery, our data recovery engineers highly specialize in all data recovery services including Clean Room Data Recovery which in any given case the hard drive is clicking, it would need to be opened in a Clean Room facility. Our team utilizes state of the art equipment with an overall high success rate. Contact us today at (818) 272–8866 for a free quote over the phone with our data recovery engineers. Take advantage of our 24/7 customer support team who will be able to assist you anytime of the day.

Clicking hard drives are not a good sign so make sure to stop what you are doing and have the data recovery professionals take it from here.

Close up of the damaged read/write heads in a Western Digital Hard Drive.

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Five Star Data Recovery
Five Star Data Recovery

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