(2) Hard drives kaput, Fix me stick or?? never again

[wflaw]

My wife used Fix me stick and it seemed to help, I used it and it quarantines some of my start up disk. When I tried to boot it up it would go to the blinking question mark. I changed my hard drive. Mean while wifey used it again and it was kernel panicking and raising all kinds of hell. Put a 1 TB hard drive in hers. According to fix me guys you put the stick back in and "undo" whatever it did, in which case what's the sense of using it? I've not had luck Ever, using any Cleaners and I lost the stick. Now to my questions (whew), I want to use the old drives for storage and use as a boot disk for ubuntu or whatever. I bought an Insignia dual hard drive dock station to read and erase drives. On her drive which mounts and I can look at what is on it (BTW there is nothing in her startup Items), but my drive (question mark), won't mount. When installed and turned on it "buzzes" clicks a few times then just a low buzz and eventually gets warm, almost hot. My drive has stuff on it we would like, Hers (which works) don't care. Any Ideas how to get it to mount?

Thanks
Walt

 

[Fishrrman]

"Fix me stick"?
What the heck is that?
I'd take that, put it in the back of the drawer, close the drawer, and never touch it again.

Re the "dual dock".
I've never used one, but I've read that some of these have problems with Macs.
It may have something to do with how the Mac "sees and mounts" USB drives.
Two drives trying to mount and run over a single USB "connection" may confuse things.
Some may work, others no, again, I don't have experience, just something I recall reading.

Can you put YOUR drive into the dock (with the other slot empty)?
Does it still "buzz"?
That doesn't sound good.
Sounds like a hardware failure.

If it IS a "hardware" failure, the only way to get the data off of it would be through a data recovery outfit.
They ARE NOT cheap. We're talking thousands.

How valuable to you is the stuff on the problem drive?

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

Why were you using a virus removal USB stick to try to fix a hardware problem?

I'm a little confused by your post, but if your wife's HD is working in the dock (with only hers plugged in) and yours is not (in the same slot with no other drive plugged in) and it's buzzing/clicking, your drive is failing.
You could try DiskWarrior to get it to mount and hopefully recover data, but you'll want another blank drive to copy to.
https://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/