I am having computer week from hell. After horrible upgrade this week to top it all off an external drive started making nasty clanking sound when I turned it on. was working perfectly 2 days ago and no signs of trouble. Last night my hard started making a ominous clanking sound. Its like a “clack clack clack” and must be platters banging around. GULP.

We have had this drive for about 3 years. It has all my photos on it. I am an idiot. Almost 200 gigs of family photos. Just writing about it makes me want to cry. Its not a matter of getting the drive recognized. the hard drives spins and then stops after about 1 minute.
I tried to yank drive out and connect directly to PC and still a problem. My one last attempt it to put in in freezer over night.
Did I just say I was putting my failed hard drive in freezer? yes.
This is an old trick. It has never worked for me but I am DESPERATE. My hard drive is in deep freeze.
In am I will grab it quickly and connect and if it works will grab as much data as I can. I have very little hope that this will work but I do know some people who swear by the hard drive in freezer method.
I may have to look at big bucks to pay some one to do it for me.
I would be thrilled to hear of ways to recover data from a dead drive, please feel free to share.
Note: ALL I told you so comments that mention I should have backed will be go in my pile of Bad Karma folder.

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