ominouswanderer wrote:it seems like the whole discussion of hard drive repair is taboo to talk about.
Not really - it's just more complicated and more difficult to do remotely (i.e. via a web forum) than you seem to realise. See:
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=12671ominouswanderer wrote:With that said I don't see what the big deal with trying to help someone diagnose their hard drive is.
Again, that's not an uncommon view by people who don't realise the complexities involved.
Sometimes it becomes obvious quite quickly that further discussion, without having the failing drive in the hands of someone with the necessary equipment and skills, is a waste of time and the limits of remote diagnosis have been reached.
The same thing happens with Doctors - some people think that Doctors should be able to diagnose a pain via a web forum, despite the patient being at home 1000s of miles away, having no CT scanner, no X-ray machine, the Doctor can't feel the patient's body looking for abnormalities etc. and then the patient gets frustrated that a Doctor can't exactly diagnose their problem, with
some types of symptoms. Of course in other cases, diagnosis is easy! It all depends...
ominouswanderer wrote:If there is public information available I'm willing to read and learn but I've done plenty of searching and digging and not coming up with much.
See the link above which explains why there isn't much public info.
ominouswanderer wrote:With a list of symptoms that the hard drive is displaying I imagine it could be narrowed down to a few things right?
You've already had some reasonable guesses kindly supplied by other members, based on the limited information supplied about the drive's current symptoms, along with warnings about the risks of continuing with DIY.
If you want a more detailed diagnosis without using the services of a DR company, then you'll need to buy and learn how to use diagnostic tools (
and take responsibility for all the associated risks) if you want to perform an exact diagnosis yourself. That will take you a long time, especially as you'll want to buy and practice on other drives first, because the tools you will be using are so complex & dangerous that one wrong click and, in some cases, you'll
never successfully recover your data. That's before you get to the intricacies of cleanroom work e.g. sourcing and replacing internal parts, if your diagnosis points in that direction.
It's your data, your choice, your money, your risk. Just don't come back here claiming that it should have been easy to fix, and blaming us when you make things worse, as you've already been advised that your plan is unlikely to succeed and it's unreasonable to expect hand-holding through each step via a web forum. OK? Good luck with your drive - perhaps the cloning will complete before the drive dies...
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Vulcan on June 28th, 2013, 20:30, edited 1 time in total.