What do you do when your hard drive starts making a klunk noise ? Usually when this happens your computer will not boot up. This is because the hard drive is having a problem called head banging. This is happening because the armature inside the drive is hitting the spindle inside the drive. Whatever you do don`t try and open the drive. A hard drive should only be opened in a clean room by a professional. Once dust gets inside the drive on the disks or platters it is useless.
Here is a link to some very interesting reading on hard drives. Check it out at http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/op/over.htm it has a lot of useful information. hard drives all vary in size depending on whether they are in a desktop computer or a laptop computer. Here are some examples of hard drives below.
The first thing to do is shut the computer off and remove the hard drive from the computer. Take the hard drive and place it in a static bag.
Next wrap a dry towel around it and put it in your refrigerator freezer. Leave it in there for several hours. Take it out of the freezer and connect it up to the computer as fast as possible. Act a quickly as you can to get the data off it. You may only have a few minutes. Before you take it out of the freezer have your computer set up with a new hard drive and your operating system reinstalled first. I would note that this does not always work. If there is data that you definitely have to such as for a business, then I would suggest sending it out to a professional data recovery business. They have clean rooms and literally take the disks out of the drive to get the data off. Do Not try it yourself, because you will contaminate it and lose everything.
With the newer types of hard drive called solid state drives you do not have this problem. They are all solid state electronics and have no moving parts. The only draw back is they are very expensive especially if you need a larger drive. I would check out this link for information on this type of hard drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive at wikipedia.
Also with solid state hard drives I do not suggest to try and install them in an older computer. If the computer has sata ports and not the older ide connections then you are probably ok. The solid sate drive may increase the start up time and running of programs. The drawback is that they are generally not very large in space to store programs. A 120gb ssd runs around $100 at newegg http://www.newegg.com/Internal-SSDs/SubCategory/ID-636. A 512gb ssd solid state drive runs around $470.00 dollars. Maybe they will come down in price in the future.
As a final note the most important thing anyone can do is back up your data. You can back it up to an external hard drive or to the cloud with carbonite. If you go with carbonite just make sure of the plan you choose. I did talk about this subjet in one of my previous posts so check it out.
Thank You for reading and stay safe.
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