Hello HDD Guru's board !

First, I'm sorry, it's my firt post here and it's for requesting help
I read some interesting stuff here and I think you can help me.

I have a respectable skill on microsoldering and digital stuff but poor knowledge on HDD recovery (some true success with testdisk, nothing more)

Let's GO

It's about a 1To WD Elements 2,5" USB 3
A day,
- drive letter not showing on windows 10
- Cold start : drive spinning normally and USB bridge detected. And after 1mn -> clak sound/spin down/spin up and then drive appear in device manager (and stay in this state)
- No drive letter and in Windows Disk manager disk appear "not allocated" Unknow state and ask me to choose initialization method...

Testdisk show only "read error" at first step (analysis)


What do you think about this ? Head problem ? or PCB problem ? what's your advices ?
Thank you very much !
Best regards
Stephane

a little more data about this disk :
WDBUZG0010BBK-EESN
WD ELEMENTS PORTABLE 1TB BLACK
EMEA 1-Oct-2016

Windows WD Tool
Test Option: QUICK TEST
Model Number: WD Elements 1078
Unit Serial Number: WX41E44YTY07
Firmware Number: 1065
Capacity: 1000.17 GB
SMART Status: Not Available
Test Result: FAIL
Test Error Code: 08-Too many bad sectors detected.
Test Time: 14:28:13, November 16, 2020

Test Option: EXTENDED TEST
Model Number: WD Elements 1078
Unit Serial Number: WX41E44YTY07
Firmware Number: 1065
Capacity: 1000.17 GB
SMART Status: Not Available
Test Result: FAIL
Test Error Code: 08-Too many bad sectors detected.
Test Time: 14:28:53, November 16, 2020

References on Drive and board :
Model : WD10JMVW
DCX : YA30J45GT
DCM : SBKT2HB
DATE : 12 JUL 2014
WWN : 50014EE65A 14DD52 USB
MDL : WD10JMVW-11AJGS3

PCB ref :
2060-771961-001 RevA

Probably one (or more) weak heads.

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Recovery offers PM are welcome (I'm from France, Europe mailing Ok)
really difficult to evaluate amount of data, but probably less than 10Gb

Thank you for your advices
Stephane

I'm sorry for this late update, crazy work in december

Thank you to pcimage, pclab, DRUG & samstown for your offers (your prices are appromatively the same between 150 (easy mode) up to 350 if head swap)

Why I choose samstown ? the nearest from my home, price in the middle range, speak french
Job perfectly done ! Thank you samstown !

Big thank you to hddguru for this forum !
See you next time !

Stephane

Thank you

I believe it was ( easy mode ) without replacing heads.
Typical issue of slow response ( power up, not showing then spin down and spin up again )

Congrats
Job well done.