Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed

[Mick]

On Tuesday, 18 December 2018 21:28:38 GMT Marc Joliet wrote:

> Just to add a personal anecdote: I once had an external drive that I thought
> had broken (it made the "clicks of death"), but after taking it out of its
> USB enclosure and connecting it directly via IDE (shows how old the drive
> was...) it actually worked and I was able to copy all data from it.  Only
> one (unimportant) directory had been corrupted.

I had a SATA drive in a desktop which suddenly started clicking rather noisily 
on start up.  I thought it's time was up, but I was advised in this M/L to 
reseat the SATA connector on the MoBo.  The drive behaved thereafter without 
any more clicking noises.  Over the years I had to repeat this reseating of 
the connector a couple of times, but otherwise it has given me faultless 
service.  I'm not saying Mark's ATA-to-USB was not to blame, but faulty 
connectors can cause such clicking symptoms.

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Regards,
Mick