Hi,

Western Digital 160GB IDE
WD1600BB-55RDA0

The drive is crashed by moving the drive upside down while running and it was in the state of copy data, now the drive is clicking (3 clicks 2 times) but did't spin down and then no clicking but spinning fine.

What can be the possible damage in this case ?

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks in Advance

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RAID/Server Recovery

I think you have answered your own questions. If you have moved your drive when in write you can cause head damage on this one. Sounds like you have caused some major damage on this drive and could have bad heads on it now or maybe you have caused some scratches on the platters and this is reason it is clicking. In cases like this it is not easy to determine from what people say here what is wrong with this drive. But for sure you will not be able to recovery it on your own.

Two choices you can either send in for recovery or second you can get a new one and move on. Consider if what is inside is important, if you have it in another drive some place else and you can make a new drive and put back your data on it, and last of all can you live without what you have put on this drive. Then go from there.

Suggestion get a new drive and start over again. Like I have done. No big loss for me cause my cat dumped my running HDD on the ground. I have the data on 5 other HDD and just takes time to put it all back onto one. You should have or make other backups of all data that is important to you and you can not lose it. That is my suggestion on this one.

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Iorana Haraharaini