Blog: Wolf Notes

An insightful guide to hard drive recovery and diagnosis

Does your computer hard drive make a constant clicking noise as it tries to access files? Has it failed completely? On the surface this would imply that your drive is physically damaged and the data is locked away in the broken drive. But often that clicking sound occurs not because the hard disk head is frozen but because it is trying to find a missing partition on the hard drive disk and from that point access deeper data. So how can you tell the difference between a physical problem (broken hard drive) and a logic crash (missing files)? You begin [...]