>Unlikely Chris - the clicking noise is the head crashing, very common >with ATA drives, and data is literally getting ripped off the disk. If >the data is important, get it to recovery before doing anything else. If >the data is not important enough to spend money on recovery, then all the >rescue things can't hurt. Remember every data access at this point loses >more data.
I disagree with what the clicking may be a symptom of. A description of "clicking" is insufficient to draw the conclusion that it is a head crash. I can cause my drive to make lots of clicking noises (on command none the less), none of them are a bad thing. Yes, depending on the type of click sound (since "click" is also a pretty ambigious term), it *could* be something really really bad. But it could also be a complete red herring and be little more than a side effect of the true problem. However I 100% agree with your comment about what to do based on the importance of the data. No matter what tools someone may have, unless they know exactly what is wrong, and why it went wrong, and have exaclty the right tool to fix it, they risk making the situation worse. If the data is valuable enough, let a pro handle it and don't even try any other fixes. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
