Another Hitachi HTS541612J9AT00 down

[memeticist]

Hello,

I have a Hitachi 120GB HTS541612J9AT00 that was in a Dell Latitude D610 (less than a year old). I had left the computer running and when I came back the screen was black. I restarted the computer and received an Internal HDD Hard Error message. The drive was not detectable by the BIOS. I pulled the drive out and put it in a USB caddy, and connected it to another computer. Windows failed to detect the drive. However, File Scavenger 3.2 recognized the drive as a two terabyte drive (as opposed to the 120 GB actual capacity). The scan recovered nothing, of course. The drive spins with no clicking.

I’m a student and fairly broke. This drive contained research and some rough drafts of my first article I want to get published. I am wondering what kind of damage I’m looking at and what sort of cost if I seek a professional? Should I start considering selling my car now?

Thank You for any assistance.

[N.C.]

I am wondering what kind of damage I’m looking at and what sort of cost if I seek a professional? Should I start considering selling my car now?

Thank You for any assistance.

You should looking for platter and/or SA damages.
It should be diagnosed by pro at least.
At this point it is not necessary to start selling your car if you have not planned this already of course....

Janos

[jono-ats]

Failing heads seems to be the main issue with this series, but since yours isn't clicking, it's probably something else like firmware or a PCB issue.