Steve wrote:
You keep saying you think you need to swap the platters , but you
never give your reasoning for that statement.
Western Digital drives can be very easy to repair , or they can be very difficult .
You should NEVER remove the cover on a WD drive unless you know
that there is a problem with the internals .AND you know what you
are doing and have the proper tools.
Even loosening the cover screws will cause the Heads to become mis-aligned.
The platters generally don't become mis-aligned unless you loosen them.
There is no need to swap platters unless the motor is bad or the
spindle is frozen.
If you can hear the drive spinning, then there should be no need for platter swap.
If the platters are mis-aligned then your data is, for all practical purposes, GONE.
Like it has been said 100's of times on this forum :
If you need your data back and don't know what you are doing ,
SEND IT TO A PROFESSIONAL.
To Repair ANY drive , the first thing you have to do, is to figure out
what is actually wrong with it before jumping in and trying to fix it.
Proper diagnosis is ALWAYS the first step.
As far as the HPE tool, they haven't stopped selling it, it is just out
of stock.
The Price you would pay for proper tools to repair this ONE drive would
be better spent paying a DR company to retrive your data.
If your data is not worth what recovery would cost , then the drive surely
isn't worth what tools would cost.
As I said previously I am a newbie, but I have enough experience in informatics field.
I have already tried all kind of software to get back my data, but with no results.
My drive does not have a logical error, but a mechanical problem.
In fact it received a bad knock while it was working.
Bios can’t detect it. I can hear clicking noise of heads and disk spinning.
I figure out that I have a mechanical problem.
I am not only interested in getting back my data, but I would like to become a new job in data recovery. For this purpose I prefer to buy an expensive tool rather than to pay professional service.