Saturday, December 2, 2017

Hard drive works intermittently but stalls on a specific sector

I replaced a hard drive for a client, but they have a lot of family photos on the old one, so I'm trying my best to recover them. The drive powers up, but often doesn't appear in HDClone. Sometimes, however, it does appear and I'm able to follow through to the duplication process. Each and every time, the process stalls at sector 13,847,762 and the drive begins making a series of clicking noises.


The drive is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160GB ST3160021A.


Does anyone have any suggestions? Does this sound like something a replacement circuit board might fix or is it probably a mechanical issue?

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