To attempt recovery put it an an open external enclosure and have another one hooked up to recover the data to.
Gently tap the hard drive with an open hand and see if you can get it to spin up one last time.
Of course it can be sent to a data recovey company if you really have to get the data off. Downloads to Recover Your Files and Save Your Bacon and 10 Best Free Hard Drive Utilities.
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There are no user serviceable parts inside the drive.
Opening it will just negate any chance of recovery.
You're not going to fix it by disassembling the drive.
The click's and beeps indicate the drive it damaged; there is a good chance (98%) that you have lost all of your data.
Note: By removing the cover from this drive the any remaining warranty will be void and all data will be considered lost.
Now if you still want to take it apart just to look inside, there will be one or two screws that are under the manufacturer's label that will have to be removed.
Pressing firmly, run you finger across the top of the drive until you can feel the depression where the screw head is.
Using you screw driver puncture the label and remove the screw.
Then you can pry the top cover off.
hope this helps
click start control panel scroll to folder options view place a tick in show hidden files folders and drivesthis may vary depending on your operating system
you might not have the appropriate software installed to read the data IE: adobe , directx , win zip ......
right click on the file select properties select security you must take/have full control to change select edit this may vary depending on which operating system you havehope this helps
The hardware that you are trying to access is damaged or failing.
The device drivers for the hardware are faulty or incompatible.
There is a connection problem such as a bad cable
for internal hard drives
Test all power and data leads that attach to your hard drive IDE,SATA
the leads from your MOTHERBOARD TO THE HARD DRIVE make sure they have a
secure dust free connections and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty if its a flat 40pin ide
this will be the first to fail
make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty
or just replace them they could be faulty a computer needs power and data to travel through every working device and continue its cycle and have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error for usb drives
click start control panel administration tools computer management device manager scroll through all of your devices
if you see a yellow question or exclamation mark ? ! or a red X you will need to update the drivers for this device right click select update driver/reinstall driver
if you can see your usb device but its not working scroll to Ports(Com&Ltd) right click to update driver
if you computer came with a motherboard disk the drivers could be on it
hope this helps
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