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 20th, 2011, 15:37
S/N WCAPZ3677781
DATE 03 OCT 2007
DCM: HANCNVJMAN
Hi Gurus.
I'm a kind of newbie, first of all.
I receved this briked drive fron a friend to heave fun with it.
it spins up, search somthing, repeat it for some 5 times and stop the spinning till next ctrl-alt-dell or power on to him. to make myself clear, the sound of searching is low, like a normal sound for searching, not cliking at all. (as I heard it).if it help to record the soud just tell me.
for me, as a kind of newbie, it seems like firmware failure.
the drive worked ok, till a system turn on and...the drive is recognized with zero capacity an no name of himself at all.
for me is not important a 250 gb drive, not even all the data on it, important is the ideea of making something to brig him alive.
in the first moment I thoot somthing like a quick search on net and after an hour...tadaaaaa....but is not quite like that.
I heave only the drive and a wish...that's all
it is possible a DIY operation on it to see what heappends on him? a hirmware or a head that has fallen(missoperaton)? If you guys can show me the road ahead....whatever time will take, I'm pacient an curious.
Thank You.
September 20th, 2011, 16:50
Sounds like heads.
If data not important then it's not worth bothering with, the parts will cost you more than a brand new drive!
September 20th, 2011, 22:03
You likely have a mechanical issue as pcimage stated.
Not quite sure what the market for WD is like in roMANIA, but this drive seems to be pretty rare and quite expensive to purchase as part. In the US, it costs about $190 just for the part.
Sadly, the warranty on your friend's drive expired in November of 2010.
Does not look like much is doable here on your end.
September 20th, 2011, 22:13
On a second thought, strange to see this, but it seems that if you have a purchase receipt (chitanta) from when you purchased the drive, WD may consider starting counting the warranty from the actual purchase date rather than the manufacturing date. But again you have to contact them and have the purchase receipt as proof. You may have a chance in RMA-ing this drive.
September 21st, 2011, 10:54
thank you for reply
the price for recovery are the same as high as there
the second hand prices are very low as 25 bucs diffrent producer but same like this, asking price, good funtioning order
for not good functionig like logical bads and/or realocated some I get 3x1 tb and a 80 gigs ide for 25 bucs. just one is in a bad state, the rest eat gigs at my finger command. if you ask me for smart readiengs (pictures from hdtune) of them I can post it.
for this wd bicked drive I want a DIY if is possibe
if not...R.I.P.
September 21st, 2011, 14:27
As previous posts said, this is beyond DIY, most probably heads have failed.
As suggested, the best you can do at this point is contact WD and bargain a new drive.
Else, bin it.
September 21st, 2011, 16:03
September 21st, 2011, 16:12
Hi, those drives is rarely seen in the usual hdd-market.
WD2500AVJS drives are often used in digital boxes for tv, surveillance and such.
Regards/ Bosse
September 22nd, 2011, 12:10
mr_spokk wrote:Hi, those drives is rarely seen in the usual hdd-market.
WD2500AVJS drives are often used in digital boxes for tv, surveillance and such.
Regards/ Bosse
The answer is missing from those 2 adreses...predictible.
this hard drive comes widhin a sistem sold by Metro (Cash&Carry) and assembled by some computer copmponet named firm...if that matters in this moment.
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