Hello.

My old laptop 2.5 hard drive (WD5000LPCX-24VHAT0 / 500gb) crashed a while ago. Everything seemed to work perfectly fine as always, until Windows suddenly became unresponsive. Then after a few seconds, the drive suddenly started with FAST-PACED CLICKING (let's say 1 click each second). I panicked and immediately closed the laptop, and then as the drive finally turned off / spun down, it also made this terrible final METAL SCREECHING/BUZZING NOISE (at the very last second, as the drive got powered off).

(Actually, that final noise sounded kinda like the dentist drill noise, if I remember correctly).

I then unplugged the laptop and haven't turn it back on ever since.

Is there any realistic hope for me here?

Thank you

Forum member "jerovsek" is based in Slovenia. I don't there is any DIY solution for you.

https://forum.hddguru.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=23956

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I'm not trying to DIY this. I'm just trying to maybe gain some perspective before I send the drive somewhere. For example, is a single second of harsh noise enough to make a drive unrecoverable, or how forgiving these particular drives are with platter damage (in relation to data recovery), etc... Anything really.