So, 3 days back my secondary hard drive having a ton of photos and other documents that I need went missing from "My computer". I panicked a bit and restarted the system several times to no avail. The disk would not show in BIOS either. I opened the box and switched the power and sata cables thinking they must have gone out and still no luck. I unhooked my drive and connected it using a spare enclosure I had lying around which is when I heard the tiny "clicking" noise coming out of my hard drive. It sounds exactly like the one in the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx6GNejwjn4
My question is that is there any way one of the freezing/whacking method work on this? Also, if I keep turning it On/off is there a risk of scratching the platters? Just today, while playing around with it using the enclosure at different angles and Hard Disk Sentinel, the disk started spinning without clicks and showed up magically for a few minutes with a 5% health. But the moment, I started copying some stuff off of it, it went dead again.
Any help at all is appreciated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx6GNejwjn4
My question is that is there any way one of the freezing/whacking method work on this? Also, if I keep turning it On/off is there a risk of scratching the platters? Just today, while playing around with it using the enclosure at different angles and Hard Disk Sentinel, the disk started spinning without clicks and showed up magically for a few minutes with a 5% health. But the moment, I started copying some stuff off of it, it went dead again.
Any help at all is appreciated.
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