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 Post subject: Dead laptop drive, but mounts in Android
PostPosted: June 18th, 2015, 9:13 
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Hi guys first post. I have an asus laptop with a 7mm thick drive 500gb hitachi came with the laptop. Its my sister's and it only has a couple of folders with her photos. Suddenly it died after she borrowed it to me. This was after she left my place and I hadn't been using it for an hour.

Symptoms are a clicking sound and no boot. Today I replaced it and installed ubuntu and have the old one in a hard drive enclosure with usb3. The old drive isn't recognised by ubuntu when I plug it in and the clicks are there.

Then I just randomly plugged it in to my LG G3 phone and there were only 2 clicks and it mounted. I can only read /efi/ which has /asus /Microsoft and /boot.


Anyone willing to help me please?

Edit: it also shows about 200mb capacity which makes me believe this is likely the circuit board that's mounted and not the actual drive? Not sure.


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 Post subject: Re: Dead laptop drive, but mounts in Android
PostPosted: June 18th, 2015, 11:11 
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My guess is that the heads are crashing. If the data is of any value, take it to a professional data recovery lab.

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 Post subject: Re: Dead laptop drive, but mounts in Android
PostPosted: June 18th, 2015, 12:08 
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Agreed, it's only seeing the EFI partition which Windows normally hides because it's a system partition, not a user one. Probably can be recovered for a reasonable price by someone who has the proper tools and knowledge of data recovery.

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 Post subject: Re: Dead laptop drive, but mounts in Android
PostPosted: June 21st, 2015, 2:15 
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m4tic wrote:
I have an asus laptop with a 7mm thick drive 500gb hitachi ...

Not much info for the diagnostics, but I'd also incline to believe that heads is the issue.
If so, it's beyond DIY. One of the forum members should be nearby, make a search by "Africa" term and look for "Nick-<something>" username.

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 Post subject: Re: Dead laptop drive, but mounts in Android
PostPosted: June 21st, 2015, 4:22 
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Yes +1 for Nick Parsons . www.southbit.co.za. he is your right professional in south africa

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