Western Digital WD10TMVV-11TK7S1 Data recovery

[Bobross2000]

Hello,

Thanks for reading! I am looking for some diagnostic help with my WD10TMVV-11TK7S1 1TB which is no longer recognized by my computer. It was never dropped, but has traveled. I am interested in recovering the data. I read through the WD10TMVV page thread, and before I make a move, I would just like to post a clip of how it sounds, see if anyone recognizes the problem. Is this 'clicking'? or 'beeping' and does that then signify head failure, connection failure, PCB failure or another problem?

Unfortunately it is one of these hardrives with no SATA connections, so I have not yet tested hooking it up with a SATA-USB connection. If anyone can tell me where to solder, I would love to try it out. I have seen a similar board with solder points E71,E72,E73,E74 indicated as the SATA data pins. My board has no E74, but E75 instead. Is that what I would use?

I made a video with the sounds it is making

http://youtu.be/yHahUuECkQ0

here are some photos
https://plus.google.com/photos/107688390986888227158/albums/5936509940626812913?authkey=CKPC2IWljd-7Pw

And here are some numbers if they can help.

Drive parameters: LBA 1953525168 1.0 TB
R/N 701754
DCM HBMTJBBN
711 56-T7A-AC
4R 1219 MX
32 H

Thanks again, I would love to recover the data, but I am not too afraid of losing it. I mostly want to exhaust all my options (costing less than about 200 dollars) before I bin it.
-ROBERT

[pcimage]

The heads are stuck.

Either to the platter or mashed into the landing ramp.

Either way, it's cleanroom work and almost certainly new heads require, which will be a lot more than $200 I'm afraid.

If pro recovery is WAY out of your league and you're gonna bin it anyway, then you might give "percussive maintenance" (search this forum) a whirl.

BUT BEAR IN MIND THIS IS "LAST CHANCE SALOON" AND LIKELY WILL KILL YOUR DRIVE AND RENDER IT UNRECOVERABLE