IMO, if you ever hear the click-of-death on a disk whatever you do to get it going is purely to gain access and extract the data. That disk is a spinning dead man.
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cybervseas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Clicking is ominous given that dmesg shows it’s stuck at spinning up. Try it with another adapter on another computer. Otherwise I wouldn’t trust it to work: what if you put data on it now and it fails?
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
mobergmann@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I hope I will notice in reasonable time and go get a new one for the next backup :)