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Topic: Hard drive sounds - clicking, knocking, whirring, grinding.. |
Starling
Replies: 0
Views: 10857
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Forum: General chat Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:50 am Subject: Hard drive sounds - clicking, knocking, whirring, grinding.. |
Here you can find some typical sounds hard drives with mechanical problems make: http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php
Hope this helps someone diagnose their problem with hard drive to begin with ... |
Topic: WD400 00DEA0 salvaged. |
Starling
Replies: 1
Views: 11702
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Forum: More stories Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:46 am Subject: WD400 00DEA0 salvaged. |
Good. These old drives were easy. This won't work with modern drives...  |
Topic: Seagate 500GB board burned |
Starling
Replies: 2
Views: 15174
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Forum: More stories Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:45 am Subject: Seagate 500GB board burned |
Try to get drive of the same model and swap the board. Chances without specialized equipment are not high but there are some. |
Topic: maxtor diamond max plus 9 250gb sata clicking / knocking |
Starling
Replies: 1
Views: 12221
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Forum: More stories Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:44 am Subject: maxtor diamond max plus 9 250gb sata clicking / knocking |
PCB swap is not enough. Heads swap is required. |
Topic: help my hard drive motor is broken. |
Starling
Replies: 2
Views: 15401
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Forum: General chat Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:42 am Subject: help my hard drive motor is broken. |
Quite often dropped hard drives have seized motor. PCB swap will not help here and usually platter swap is required.
These are actually the most difficult cases in data recovery business and no way y ... |
Topic: Western Digital 80G ,, WDC ROM SABRE |
Starling
Replies: 8
Views: 45292
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Forum: General chat Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:38 am Subject: Western Digital 80G ,, WDC ROM SABRE |
Here are some typical sounds hard drives with mechanical problems make: http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php
Find out which one sounds like yours and go from there. |
Topic: Swapping IDE PCB for SATA PCB? |
Starling
Replies: 1
Views: 13515
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Forum: General chat Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:31 am Subject: Swapping IDE PCB for SATA PCB? |
No, that won't work like that. You have to find exact match if you don't have right tools to adapt firmware to SATA board. |
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