Beardo, hard drives always rattle. If louder than before or usual, try to make a full copy of the (relevant) data immediately (to another HDD, a flash drive or your computer). Then download a testing software and run it on your HDD. If its broken, get it exchanged if theres still a warranty on it. Otherwise, bring it to your e-waste collection point if there is such an institution at your place/in your town/country. Repairing it is not fesasible. If you have very valuable unique data on it and you couldn’t save them, you can bring the defect HDD to a shop specialized on data recovery. They will open the drive and scan it using special equipment in their laboratory, then store everything they can collect to a USB-stick. The work will cost you more than a new HDD. Actually, nowadays its better to go with flash drives/USB-sticks anyway. Don’t buy the cheapest, get it checked by a tool before using it, and overthink your data backup strategy.
But be real. If the arm is already crashing about, it’s been doing way more damage when the disk tried to spin up under power than a repair guy is likely to do just shaking it a little.
Spock over 5 years ago
Beardo, hard drives always rattle. If louder than before or usual, try to make a full copy of the (relevant) data immediately (to another HDD, a flash drive or your computer). Then download a testing software and run it on your HDD. If its broken, get it exchanged if theres still a warranty on it. Otherwise, bring it to your e-waste collection point if there is such an institution at your place/in your town/country. Repairing it is not fesasible. If you have very valuable unique data on it and you couldn’t save them, you can bring the defect HDD to a shop specialized on data recovery. They will open the drive and scan it using special equipment in their laboratory, then store everything they can collect to a USB-stick. The work will cost you more than a new HDD. Actually, nowadays its better to go with flash drives/USB-sticks anyway. Don’t buy the cheapest, get it checked by a tool before using it, and overthink your data backup strategy.
rhpii over 5 years ago
I keep thinking of an Etch-a-Sketch and how you had to shake it to clear the screen.
fredd13 over 5 years ago
But be real. If the arm is already crashing about, it’s been doing way more damage when the disk tried to spin up under power than a repair guy is likely to do just shaking it a little.