Old Hard Drive
 

NOt sure where to post this but I have an old dead hard drive. 2007?. Old configuration. The drive is dead. I replace the circuit board and got it to work but I hear a clicking sound. I hooked it up to my computer and the computer cannot read the drive. Is there a way to get the information off? There are a lot of pictures on it that x relatives would like to have.

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That happened to me once. I hooked the old HD up to my PC through a USB and it didn't read it. I put it in a drawer and forgot about it for a few years. Then I saw a complete PC on someone's Hard Rubbish (here in oz where you put all your big pieces of junk on the lawn and the council collect it, once a year), pulled out the HD and plugged my one in, ran it in Safe Mode and my 8,000 pics appeared again. So don't give up hope.

You have done the most difficult part (outside of a clean room) - replacing the circuit board.

This site has some tips (remove spaces around the dot) www.securedatarecovery . com/blog/hard-drive-clicking

The last resort is to send it to a data recovery company, like the one above or eg ontrack . com
I believe some have a no fix no fee policy, and if they recover any data will quote you a price for its recovery saved onto another disk, so you can then decide if it worth it.