I have a 120Gb Htiachi Deskstar hard drive (my main drive) that started
making a terrible clicking sound then a clunk last night.
I immediately shut down, thinking it might have been the heat and tried
starting up later with no luck, just the clicking noise and failure to
recognise the drive. The machine just wouldn't start.
Now, I do have backups, but I'd really like to get hold of the stuff I
was working on at the time this happened (I'm four weeks away from a
national tour with the band and thus feverishly working away).
Anyone had any experience with this kind of thing? Is it worth taking
the drive into my local Apple Store / Apple repairer, or will I need to
go to a data recovery company?
Any help or advice you can offer would me very much appreciated.
Cheers!
Callum Prior
