Question about failed HD with clicks

[maz]

Hello .. thnk you for this great fourm

If a HD failed and gives the clicks sound (clicks of death)
and the HD cannot be recognised by the system

could this problem be fixed by replacing the logical board of the HD?

i mean is this fixing method (replacing the baord) working on a HD with clicks sound?

because somebody told me that replacing the board only works on the failed HD which do not give clicks sound.

[hddguy]

Your question does not have a yes or no answer. When the reading heads are unable to identify any information, they continue to seek across the media until stopped by an internal stopper which prevents the heads coming off the platters. This failure can be caused by a number of possibilities, defective components on PCB can play a part in a knocking disk, but also can be associated with mechanical damage, corrupted SA adaptives, ROM corruption, poor power suply etc.

The only way to correctly identify the source of the failure is correct diagnosis with professional equipment. Anything else is just hearsay..

[maz]

Thank you for the replay

But it could one of the solutions right?

i mean if anyone has a filed HD with clicks of death shoud not exclude replacing the board as a soultion??

[zebong]

As hddguy told and very well,

The only way to correctly identify the source of the failure is correct diagnosis with professional equipment. Anything else is just hearsay..

[DataWreck]

As zebong said a correct diagnosis is the most important factor here as applying the wrong solution could make matters worse and also add more variables into why the drive is not functioning.

If swapping the PCB (and any adaptive info/ ROM etc.) Still resulted in a clicking drive then you won't know without the correct tools if maybe the new PCB was faulty.

You really have to be certain of the problem before attempting to fix it or in nearly all cases the results will be bad.

Leigh

[maz]

How the real problem be diagnosed if the HD cannot be recognised by BIOS or windows?

[zebong]

How the real problem be diagnosed if the HD cannot be recognised by BIOS or windows?

Easy one,

With the rigth tools and knowledge

[networkpc3000]

hi,
what your spec? what have you done on it?