Western Digital Hard drive Siren

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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
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jay007
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Western Digital Hard drive Siren

March 30th, 2011, 7:01

I have a WD1200BEVS that makes siren sound like here Stuck Spindle. http://www.salvagedata.com/docs/failed-hard-drive-sounds/

What options do i have to recover data on this drive. will I need to send it away???
lcoughey
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Re: Western Digital Hard drive Siren

March 30th, 2011, 8:34

You are possibly right in your diagnosis and unlikely able to do anything non-destructive yourself. I recommend you contact the forum user, "pcimage." He is in the UK and is more than capable of providing you with a reasonable quote and recovering your data.
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Re: Western Digital Hard drive Siren

March 30th, 2011, 13:57

jay007 wrote:I have a WD1200BEVS that makes siren sound like here Stuck Spindle. http://www.salvagedata.com/docs/failed-hard-drive-sounds/

What options do i have to recover data on this drive. will I need to send it away???


You have PM
fzabkar
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Re: Western Digital Hard drive Siren

March 30th, 2011, 16:39

See this thread, but heed the warnings:
http://forums.seagate.com/t5/FreeAgent- ... 242#M11384
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