Amarbir[CDR-Labs] wrote:
pcn wrote:
Stop playing with it, it will not help. If a pro recovery is out of your budget atm do it later: Drive was dropped, it might have severe physical damages (platter, firmware, heads), nothing you can do but make it worse.
Well,
i am amazed PCN that more and more people are playing with their drives ,This is Due to youtube and some stupid videos on that website .I have created 2 video till today on this subject
Why you should not unstuck stuck heads yourself ->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F0XjzuKzgYStop giving data recovery cases to computer shops ->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYR4PiKOIoPS : But i think i need to make another one where i educate actual clients not to try physical cases themselves ,Its a Bad Situation
I completely understand the consequences of opening the drive and that it's the worst thing to do. I'm not overly concerned with the data on the drive, it's simply a side project/challenge for me. I've told my wife it's screwed at this point regardless. I don't and won't ever have the means of sending it off for a professional repair....what we are attempting to save just isn't worth it.
With that said, I'm just trying to find a logical answer as to why a head from a donor drive would also click like the other. Is there a relationship between the head and the firmware/service area on the drive? In my mind, I see the head as a simple mechanical part and the real "talk" between the parts is the PCB and the information on the drive itself... Does that make sense?
I've swapped heads on Seagate drives before and had success and was able to retrieve data off for customers. Yes, I told them the risk and that the chances of recovering anything was next to nil, but it has worked for me in the past. Perhaps Western Digital has something else going on that the Seagate's didn't. That's what I'm trying to figure out, simply if I'm overlooking something.