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g4 17" - hard drive making constant grind noise
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<blockquote data-quote="rcltrh" data-source="post: 219734" data-attributes="member: 15752"><p>Grinding clicking noises usually means your drive has died and generally not repairable, especially if it is not even detected in disk manager. Even if the drive is unformatted or the partitions have been lost or corrupted it still shows up there as a hardware device. For several hundred or in some cases thousands of dollars there are places that can recover data. Hopefully you had important stuff backed up somewhere. Now it is possible that a cable has come loose, well not necessarily loose itself but one of the pins has lost contact. Sometimes unplugging and replugging the drive will fix that problem. But if you have applecare, then opening the computer would void that so I would let them have a look. They might be able to recover it. Best of luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rcltrh, post: 219734, member: 15752"] Grinding clicking noises usually means your drive has died and generally not repairable, especially if it is not even detected in disk manager. Even if the drive is unformatted or the partitions have been lost or corrupted it still shows up there as a hardware device. For several hundred or in some cases thousands of dollars there are places that can recover data. Hopefully you had important stuff backed up somewhere. Now it is possible that a cable has come loose, well not necessarily loose itself but one of the pins has lost contact. Sometimes unplugging and replugging the drive will fix that problem. But if you have applecare, then opening the computer would void that so I would let them have a look. They might be able to recover it. Best of luck! [/QUOTE]
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