Hallo
I have a hard disk which is klikking when I start it up.
Is it going to be possible for me to get another circuit for the disk and swapping them over or does everyone think with the klikking sound that it is not working?
It cannot be seen in windows.
Clicking is a bad thing. Typically the head coming in contact with one or more of the platters.
Physical sounds require physical data recovery.
In other words, a clicking hard drive requires a Cleanroom and a lab that has the capabilities of changing parts in the Cleanroom. Remember, parts must come from another working drive and parts cost money.
The clicking is because the heads cannot find the service track for whatever reason - bad head, damaged platter, firmware issues. The firmware on modern drives is in 2 sections - one is hardware and located on a chip. The other is all the drive specific info stored on the service track (track 0 ). The drive wont know where to put the heads without the service track info that contains formatting info, temperature compensation, acoustic info and other data the drive needs for tracking.
The clicking is actually the heads seeking from one end of the travel to the other. A good majority of the data recoveries I do its an actual head/preamp issue