Is there anyone out there who can help me, i have a WD 40gig HDD that no longer gets detected on startup no matter what i do. It makes a rather awful sound, as if the drive head cannot read properly and i need the drive fixed or something done as i have a lot of data on there and cant lose to much of it. If anyone can help please i would appreciate it!!
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Dead Hard Drive
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AmonRe said:
If it's a WD400EB possibly not head damage.
If it's WD400AB or BB probably heads damage.
Is the sound - ka ching ka ching ka ching ... repeated quite fast.
or grghh, grghh.
First sound type certainly heads - second type - possibly electronics.
Either way don't power-up again.
good luck with getting data.
andres101
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i've had drives pack up on me before and I just put them in the fridge for a couple of hours and then they worked again (for a few minutes). if your not prepared to pay for data recovery, give this a shot.
a lot of people has warned me not to do it though.
if the drive is detected by your bios but not by windows, you can still get some of the data off by using a linux boot disc.
a lot of people has warned me not to do it though.
if the drive is detected by your bios but not by windows, you can still get some of the data off by using a linux boot disc.
See my post in http://www.mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=29506
I've use HandyRecovery before to get data of a dead harddrive.
I've use HandyRecovery before to get data of a dead harddrive.
Franna said:
this kind of stuff only works for working drives and further ....
this kind of stuff is the single biggest culprit of permanently lost data.
When a drive clicks, knocks or does not detect normally this is the first phase of failure - mostly easily recovered.
Connecting these drive types to windows based file recovery programs is about the worst option if data is important.
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andres101 said:
What eva you do, do not put it in the fridge. The protective layer once the discs freezes and starts to crack, this leaves little particles inside the hdd and it later starts to corrode the disk from the inside.
I read an article some were, were if u have an identical drive u can just move across the platters in the drive to the working one and its supposed to work, any idea?? I havent tried it and dont really want to as i could loose all data!!
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
We also got a lot of dead Quantum hard drives. What we would do was to swap the PC boards from a working Quantum drive with the dead one. 99% of the time you can get 80% to 99% of the data off the dead hard drive, for one last time. (I'm not kidding - you sometimes do get only one chance, so everything needed - new hard drive, Ghost/cloning program and software MUST be ready and available). Note : This may (or may not) work for other hard drive types. Just keep in mind that you cannot use a 40Gb HDD's logic board on a 80Gb HDD.
If you're not willing to take a chance, and you do need the data, then it is a better option to send the hard drive in for data recovery. Toms Hardware did an excellent article on data recovery here.
If you're running a large company, ask yourself whether your company would survive without data backups. My current company are very dependent upon our source code, and so therefore, do need good backups of this code. Without this code we would not survive, a good backup schedule is absolutely essential. (My job is on the line - if I don't do the backups, and something bad happens, then I'm fired...)
Good luck with the data recovery!
If you're not willing to take a chance, and you do need the data, then it is a better option to send the hard drive in for data recovery. Toms Hardware did an excellent article on data recovery here.
If you're running a large company, ask yourself whether your company would survive without data backups. My current company are very dependent upon our source code, and so therefore, do need good backups of this code. Without this code we would not survive, a good backup schedule is absolutely essential. (My job is on the line - if I don't do the backups, and something bad happens, then I'm fired...)
Good luck with the data recovery!
WD head change - very difficult to find a suitable matching drive.
Not recommended unless you understand WD very well.
Most DR "experts" don't even understand WD nuances.
Even circuit board change on WD with identical models won't work
much of the time.
You need specialised equipment to establish if idea of changing heads
or boards might work.
btw. platter changing is not good option for WD.
Not recommended unless you understand WD very well.
Most DR "experts" don't even understand WD nuances.
Even circuit board change on WD with identical models won't work
much of the time.
You need specialised equipment to establish if idea of changing heads
or boards might work.
btw. platter changing is not good option for WD.
swordfish1
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never heard of platter swaping ... but you can definitely swap the circuit board from another IDENTICAL drive, well reading what n0hIwAy says this may not work either
swordfish1 said:
Toshiba 2.5" drive & certain Hitachi - pcb swap cannot ever work.
Sometimes pcb swap can wreck both drives -permanently.
Some drives like IBM need pcb swap and some additional programming.
Platter swap is good option for a few drives when motor can't spin
at correct speed.
Mostly it's not circuitry which varies - but onboard program data.
