HDD Problem

[vash]

Hey Everybody...

I have a problem with my HDD that the bios reads the HDD but the computer will not boot the HDD because the computer is saying that the HDD is Damaged and its true, I mean the head actuar his doing those clicks in n' out from the platter but my questions are:

1.If I buy a new HDD with the same size of Gigabytes and just place the old head actuar with a new one, will it work? or do the opposite and change the old platter and put it where the new platter is, will it work?..

2.If the Bios recognize the HDD and also when the HDD is used as a secondary driver when the OS is working and i can see the HDD in the device manager but it didn't get any HDD letter in my computer how can i extract the data from it?...

3.Is there a way to bypass those recovery labs that charge a lot of moy just for the recovery of those HDDs?...

Thanks a lot...

[pcimage]

Probably bad sectors, or possibly a failing head.

Try imaging the drive to a known good (blanked) drive, with a non-windows based imager (e.g. CopyR, Mediatools Pro, dd_rescue), then run some DR software on the image.

Don't try running any recovery s/w on the damaged drive.

[BlackST]

No idea.

[shahij]

go on a try first with the MHDD to if u get detected and SCAN to see the status...
and go to the next step...
Ignore CHKDSK or Automatic Scan if the drive goes to be scanned automatically.
post the MHDD Log here