Good day
This is my first post here since I have not found any "Introduce yourself" post anywhere. Please excuse me if there's one. I work as IT technician, although I'm not an HDD recovery PRO nor close to
That's just the reason why I need your expert advice.
A couple of days ago my Samsung HD501LJ HDD suddenly started to make a strange sound while I was working with my desktop PC. The sound was similar to the normal "reading" sound (I mean no click or clack, just trrrr, trrr, trrrr,...), although louder, so louder that it caught inmediately my attention. Some seconds later I receive a BSD and has to power off manually the computer.
After the hard reboot, the BIOS doesn't detect the drive, and it makes the same loud noise that sounds like if it where trying to start or something. I repeat the sound has nothing to do with typical "clicks of death" that I have heard before. The sound changes from time to time, I mean, is always the same pattern but every x cycles the "song" changes and start with another "rythym" (sorry, don't know how to explain it better).
I've tried with many HDD utilities, Samsung's Hutil included, but as the BIOS doesn't recognize the drive there's nothing I can do with this software.
Then yesterday I read about the "freeze trick" so I put the drive in the freezer for a couple of hours. When I connected and powered the computer the BIOS could recognize the drive at first and there was no noise on the drive, but just some seconds later the sound started and the drive was again no longer visible by BIOS. I've repeated this twice and both times the BIOS recognizes briefly the drive, but not long enough to allow me access to it nor to run any diagnostics, it is recognized only for some 20-30 seconds.
So the question is, if by freezing the drive the BIOS is at least able to recognize the drive briefly, and the sound is not a click or clack, what kind of problem am I facing here? PCB? Heads?
I have some fairly important info inside that could not be backed up sinde backups were made monthly and the HDD crashed on 20th, so there are 20 days of updated info and work lost.
Please feel free to ask any other info you need, thank you in advance for your answers and please excuse my bad english.
Regards