But where was the backup copies? Hard disks whether internal or external have issues and are not where to store what we want to keep.
With those bad noises I would never turn it on but get it to the usual data recovery shops.
Bob
I cannot believe this happened to me. I bought an external hardrive (Maxtor) and backed up all my client's files on it. Then a few months went by and my husband's decided to sell my G4 desktop (which also had a backup of the files) and a week after that my g4 laptop starting having problems... hardrive problems!!
Anyway making a long story short(er)... they replaced the hardrive (with the original files on it) and now my external hardrive won't read!!!! AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH HELP!
I turn it on and it sounds like the disk is scratching or caught.. makes a horrible noise so I turn off right away. I need this fixed, I don't have any other backup and my client will not be interested in my unfortunate series of events.
-Val

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