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If your drive is making a ticking, clicking, or banging noise it never made before, power-down the device. You need help! continued work or attempts to reboot the device may cause more damage!!.
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If you internal/external hard drive is asking to be initialized or formatted, this is usually the result of a damaged or corrupted computer’s index. Your chances of a full recovery are good; Physical malfunction of the storage hardware is much more serious. The quicker we get to work the better the chances of your recovery.
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Always back up your data, make sure that copies of your most important data are being kept off-site.
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Do NOT run utility programs, save data or add programs. Do NOT use backup programs to attempt to save your data. They all write to or add files to your hard drive during the back-up process.
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Do not turn off peripheral devices while computer is on, or when disc is active drives should be stable and stationary when operating. If you have to move your computer – turn it off first
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