Data Recovery Of External Hard Drive
How do you find a reliable repair of an external hard drive?
Geek squad said to be wary of unscrupulous data recovery firms. My daughter dropped her external HD and now it just clicks when you access it.
Your best bet would be to invest in another drive since the one that your daughter has could fail at anytime. As far as recovery goes, the best advice that I can offer is to do a file transfer from the damaged one to another drive. That is if the files are readable. And if the files cannot be transferred your other option would be to recover the data and transfer soon after. I googled & came across many data recovery programs, most of which hook you, meaning they offer free download & scan but charge for additional services. The one I did my search on was freeware, but again I didn’t go any further than the download link since I am unsure whether or not there will be a charge. I absolutely refuse to pay for anything nowadays. But give it a try, should that be the case and move on to another link or data recovery program if your current one charges for services. Sorry about your troubles. Best of luck to you friend!
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