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Yesterday static charge from my body stopped my seagate external drive from working. I hear unusual clicking noise but not detected anymore. Anyone know if the data may have lost? Cheers. Update (07/19/2020) Thanks guys, I am not going to touch this although I have exactly identical hard drive with same model and PN and going to use that as a donor. But will get it done by a data recovery company. Yes expensive, over £500. I had all my 15 years family photos duplicated on 3 drives and last week I sorted them all out and put them in this one drive. I was going to make a back up on another drive but this happened one day before I do the back up. Just my laziness..! I hope the data is still available and this company can recover all the photos. It is not SSD so I hope Dan is spot on, I hope that’s the case anyway. Expecting a call from that company and will see what happens and will update guys. Appreciate for taking time to reply.
The data on the platters is likely still there. The controller board tends to get damaged from ESD. Now the fun part! If this is your only copies of your stuff and you need it badly then you’ll need to find someone with the needed parts and skills to replace the controller board. While expensive, it’s likely the safest way. Or, you’ll need to find another drive (an exact match) which is working to salvage the controller from to get your drive going again. This is not an easy! And you could end up with two dead drives $$
