Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
September 10th, 2010, 4:25
WD
wd1600BEVS-22RST0
the drive wont spin up, the computer freezes duing post at Detecting drives.
no drive activity led, drive seems to be dead..
what should be the first step to figure out whats wrong?
September 10th, 2010, 4:53
AMD_infinium05 wrote:WD
wd1600BEVS-22RST0
the drive wont spin up, the computer freezes duing post at Detecting drives.
no drive activity led, drive seems to be dead..
what should be the first step to figure out whats wrong?
It depends of what you want as a result.
If you need a working laptop, just change hdd to a new.
September 10th, 2010, 4:53
Was the drive dropped? Can you hear it trying to spin? Is there any visible damage to the components on the drive's PCB?
September 10th, 2010, 8:59
Check if the 12 / 5 volts are not shorted. If so Check diodes. Do not plug into the same machine again but a proper power supply or an outlet behind a UPS.
If power is ok and not spinning then its more complicated and could be one of two. PCB damage / Spindle seized. (because you said its not spinning up)
September 10th, 2010, 14:41
Put your ear to the drive when it is receiving power, is it making a musical sound?
if so, spindle is being stopped by something, either the spindle itself is seized, or the heads are stuck to the disks causing the seizure.
If there is no sound at all, it is likely the PCB.
September 10th, 2010, 17:23
ppumkin wrote:Check if the 12 / 5 volts are not shorted. If so Check diodes.
The laptop (?) gets as far as the POST screen, so there can't be a short on any supply rail. In any case, I expect that this 2.5" drive has only a single 5V supply.
September 14th, 2010, 18:55
fzabkar wrote:Was the drive dropped? Can you hear it trying to spin? Is there any visible damage to the components on the drive's PCB?
no sir, it wont even trying to spin.
September 14th, 2010, 18:56
ppumkin wrote:Check if the 12 / 5 volts are not shorted. If so Check diodes. Do not plug into the same machine again but a proper power supply or an outlet behind a UPS.
If power is ok and not spinning then its more complicated and could be one of two. PCB damage / Spindle seized. (because you said its not spinning up)
voltages gets into the drive, i can feel that the controller chip, gets warm by time.
September 14th, 2010, 19:13
post pic of pcb.
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