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 4th, 2014, 6:23
hi,
I got western usb hard drive. when I connect to pc via usb, usb is not detected but the drive spins up with 4 clicking noise then stop spinning. my question: is the problem with the board or the drive.
December 4th, 2014, 6:44
Not a PCB problem, I think bad heads.
December 4th, 2014, 9:30
rd-simone wrote:Not a PCB problem, I think bad heads.
+1
December 4th, 2014, 10:18
For these drives, definitely heads.
December 4th, 2014, 14:04
Totally agree. Bad heads.
December 4th, 2014, 18:05
4 clicks=Searching servo because heads are down......
Spin down=Put drive itself safe mode.
December 8th, 2014, 0:20
and about usb not detected?
December 8th, 2014, 13:32
It can't identify the hard drive model since it fails to initialize. Thus the "usb not detected" error.
It's heads, not PCB. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen this model with a bad PCB. It's pretty much always heads.
December 9th, 2014, 6:32
thank you all.
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