Hard Drive Failure

[helpmeplease]

Hi,
I have a WD 150GB HD that won't mount. If I try and run a disk utility program, it says that the drive has errors and cannot retrieve data. It has also started clicking when it "tries" to mount. Would it help if I changed the PCB? I have never done this, but came across this option on your forum. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[microsoftengineer]

HI
could u mention drive Model there is no 150GB Hard drive it should be 160GB.

[pcimage]

PCB won't help.

Clicking isn't a good sign and it's not going to get better, only worse.

If you really do need your data, then this one is pro only.

Sorry if that's not what you wanted to hear?

[microsoftengineer]

Totally agree with PCimage

[DR-Kiev]

HI
could u mention drive Model there is no 150GB Hard drive it should be 160GB.

There is a lot of 150Gb Hard drives.
For example "Raptor" . WD1500ADFD-00NLR1

[Alexii]

Hi,
I have a WD 150GB HD that won't mount. If I try and run a disk utility program, it says that the drive has errors and cannot retrieve data. It has also started clicking when it "tries" to mount. Would it help if I changed the PCB? I have never done this, but came across this option on your forum. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Drive clicking = heads are unable to read service area. Sometimes due to head(s) going bad. Sometimes due to damage to SA itself. On a very rare ocasion a PCB can be at fault. Does ur drive at least IDs the correct model name in BIOS ? Or if u are using external dock - then does plug and play beep and give u the model in the corner of the screen ? Or is it just click click click ?

[lcoughey]

Hi,
I have a WD 150GB HD that won't mount. If I try and run a disk utility program, it says that the drive has errors and cannot retrieve data. It has also started clicking when it "tries" to mount. Would it help if I changed the PCB? I have never done this, but came across this option on your forum. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Drive clicking = heads are unable to read service area. Sometimes due to head(s) going bad. Sometimes due to damage to SA itself. On a very rare ocasion a PCB can be at fault. Does ur drive at least IDs the correct model name in BIOS ? Or if u are using external dock - then does plug and play beep and give u the model in the corner of the screen ? Or is it just click click click ?

I get the feeling that the user is on a Mac and subsequently doesn't have BIOS access to the drive. I agree that it could be any of those issues, none of which can be dealt with easily in a DIY situation.

[helpmeplease]

Thanks everyone - Yes, I am on a MAC and it is a Raptor Drive. I put the internal drive in a dock (Voyager). It reads the correct name of the HD but I am getting errors such as B-tree nodes etc. I was hoping for a DIY situation, but it seems I'm in over my head.

[Alexii]

Heya m8. I am not very good with Macs but here goes. The drive IDs = drive did read service area and managed to init itself. B tree errors in Mac are like MFT errors in windows. There might be some bad/slow sectors in the begining of ur drive and u lost ur folder/file structure due to that. However clicking is bad. Failing head maybe. Maybe its not slow sectors , but a bad head that is unable to read. At this point id suggest a DR shop to look at it. A lot of them offer ffree diagnostics. If the problem is with heads - it will be reasonably expensive. If the problem is just bad sectors on a drive - it will be reasonably cheap.

[Alexii]

In addition. DIY in the sittuation of bad sectors = bit copy from the back to the front and run a logical recovery soft on the clone ( R-Studio, Data Rescue for Mac etc )

If the heads are the problem - DIY chances are close to 0. Sry.

[networkpc3000]

yeah. raptor family is hard to do. as well is send it to data recovery company for process.