Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
April 8th, 2021, 10:17
Hey Guys,
currently I have a WD20NMVW-11AV3S2 drive on my table. Client said, the drive wasn't dropped, it just stopped to work. The drive made the typical sounds like the heads were on the platter. I opened the drive, but everything was OK. But the platters were very hard to rotate. But the platters rotated without any scratchy sound. I also wasn't able to see anything wrong with the drive.
As always, I transferred the ROM to a SATA Board and tried to fire up the drive. But it failed. Still the same, the spindle does not rotate. Does anyone has any idea, what it could be?
Problems with the bearing? Maybe I should heat the drive up a little bit?
April 10th, 2021, 7:10
Poor client...
Stop what you're doing and consult someone who knows how to deal with this case. I would have said 'respectfully' but I think it's already too late.
April 10th, 2021, 7:30
Yeah, put it in the oven at 350 ºC for 20 minutes and it will unfreeze the spindle!
April 15th, 2021, 9:57
pclab wrote:Yeah, put it in the oven at 350 ºC for 20 minutes and it will unfreeze the spindle!
Watch out! He might take it seriously!
April 15th, 2021, 10:22
You are so funny, guys.
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