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
December 31st, 2011, 11:11
Hi,
Greetings to everybody.
I have 2 Hitachi 1TB Simpledrives, unfortunately one has died, clicking noise, when starting up.
I have tried swapping PCB's, on the clicking drive with the good one, did not work.
Do I need a specific PCB for each Hard Disk.???
The faulty Hard disk PCB is OA71337, BA3294A.
The good Hard disk PCB is OA72947, BA3321B.
I have looked at different websites, in regards to getting fixed, just to expensive.
Majority of data is films/music, have replaced, but have about 200 - 300MB of doucuments etc.
Would this be cheaper to recover if you do not need all Hard disk recovered apart from documents only.
Any advice would be greately appreicated.
January 1st, 2012, 8:47
If the drive clicks then there is nothing wrong with the pcb. Most probably some internal damage (heads etc) or some other firmware problem. Needs to be diagnosed accurately to tell. If the data is not too important and problem is with drive's internals, i'd say accept loss and move on. If data is important, then you should consult a pro about it.
I do not know other companies' policies, but we charge based on failure of drive and not the amount of recovered data.
January 4th, 2012, 15:59
northwind wrote:If the drive clicks then there is nothing wrong with the pcb. Most probably some internal damage (heads etc) or some other firmware problem. Needs to be diagnosed accurately to tell. If the data is not too important and problem is with drive's internals, i'd say accept loss and move on. If data is important, then you should consult a pro about it.
I do not know other companies' policies, but we charge based on failure of drive and not the amount of recovered data.
Thank You
January 4th, 2012, 16:03
As I have another hard disk, which is similiar to the first one.
Is it possible to change the heads.???
What tools are needed.
What would be the minimum cost for a expert to recover.???
January 4th, 2012, 16:55
monzurahmed wrote:As I have another hard disk, which is similiar to the first one.
Is it possible to change the heads.???
What tools are needed.
What would be the minimum cost for a expert to recover.???
It may be possible to change the heads, but not by you with respect.
Expect an absolute minimum of £400 on a drive of this complexity.
If this is out of the question, then like northwind says, move on and forget about the data.
January 4th, 2012, 18:32
pcimage wrote:monzurahmed wrote:As I have another hard disk, which is similiar to the first one.
Is it possible to change the heads.???
What tools are needed.
What would be the minimum cost for a expert to recover.???
It may be possible to change the heads, but not by you with respect.
Expect an absolute minimum of £400 on a drive of this complexity.
If this is out of the question, then like northwind says, move on and forget about the data.
Many Thanks for the advice.
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