I have been researching my eyes out on recovering data from a failed hard drive. It is a Western Digital Scorpio 320GB. I have a USB to SATA cable that I use to hook up to the PC and Disk Management does not see to detect it. I can't hear anything spin up when plugged in. The only sound is a very faint clicking sound that seems to repeat every second. Against better advice I have opened the case and took a quick picture in my own little clean lab and after comparing to other drives online I can not tell if there is anything physically wrong with it. The platter does spin freely though and does not seem to stick at all.
Could this be a motor issue and if so how do I go about fixing it? I have tried the freezing option to no avail.
Could this be a motor issue and if so how do I go about fixing it? I have tried the freezing option to no avail.