Clicking hard drives

A clicking hard drive is a dreaded sound that you hopefully won't ever have to hear (and if you do, hopefully you have backed up your data). A failing hard drive can make a variety of sounds and to post them all would take a while. In most cases, a clicking drive will sound something like this.

That clicking sound is indicative of physical hardware failure on the disk. It can happen anytime and can happen to a drive that is brand new or one that is really ancient. It is important that you immediately turn the computer off and stop using the drive. If the problem is a head crash, then continuing to use the drive in this state can cause permanent data loss.

If you have experienced this problem, contact ReWave for free help. We can diagnose your problem with a free evaluation which won't cost you anything. We have over 16 years of experience recovering data from clicking hard drives. We offer both desktop data recovery and laptop data recovery.

Now for the joke of the day:

A duck walks into a drugstore and asks for a tube of ChapStick. The cashier says to the duck, “That’ll be $1.49.” The duck replies, “Put it on my bill!”