Hi, I'm a fairly new to college computer engineering student.
I got a laptop from a friend that wanted me to try to recover her data off her hard drive. I heard that there was a clicking noise from the HDD when I tried to start her computer, so I moved it to my desktop to try it there. I plugged it in and nothing happened at first. After that, I got a little frustrated and tried a USB enclosure, it read it, but i couldn't get any of the actual data off it. It just showed up as a system recovery partition. It's a 320gb hard drive but it's also showing up as just a system recovery partition in the disk management screen.
I'm honestly stumped right now, and I would just like to ask the wizards on the forum here for what I should do. I'm pretty stubborn, but I didn't want to open the drive myself unless I had to. I've reseated the arm in hard drives before, but that's about it.
Please help!
If I need to post any screenshots or run any diagnostics just let me know.
I got a laptop from a friend that wanted me to try to recover her data off her hard drive. I heard that there was a clicking noise from the HDD when I tried to start her computer, so I moved it to my desktop to try it there. I plugged it in and nothing happened at first. After that, I got a little frustrated and tried a USB enclosure, it read it, but i couldn't get any of the actual data off it. It just showed up as a system recovery partition. It's a 320gb hard drive but it's also showing up as just a system recovery partition in the disk management screen.
I'm honestly stumped right now, and I would just like to ask the wizards on the forum here for what I should do. I'm pretty stubborn, but I didn't want to open the drive myself unless I had to. I've reseated the arm in hard drives before, but that's about it.
Please help!
If I need to post any screenshots or run any diagnostics just let me know.
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