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Hitachi 2.5 HDD won't spin up

November 29th, 2023, 15:58

hi. i have this hdd hitachi 500gb from a laptop. it failed to boot suddenly. Ive managed to make an image from one of the partitions, but the second one failed. the disk is recognized by windows but fails reading data. victoria shows multiple errors. but recognize it. one error that i noticed its that rpm test shows 65 rpm. how should i continue?can the PCB be repaired or should I look for a donor?
in advance, thanks

Re: Hitachi 2.5 HDD won't spin up

November 29th, 2023, 16:25

If you can make an image of one of the partitions then the issue is not the PCB. More than likely the drive has bad sectors/media damage being a laptop drive.

Re: Hitachi 2.5 HDD won't spin up

November 30th, 2023, 9:24

The drive reported bad sectors. Then I tried to clone the drive. The process couldn't complete failing at the second partition. The disk deteriorated it's condition during the process.

Re: Hitachi 2.5 HDD won't spin up

November 30th, 2023, 18:35

What program are you using to clone the drive?

Re: Hitachi 2.5 HDD won't spin up

December 3rd, 2023, 16:51

A boot disk with a Linux os and a program called redo backup

Re: Hitachi 2.5 HDD won't spin up

December 3rd, 2023, 17:31

Try HDDSuperClone / OpenSuperClone.

Re: Hitachi 2.5 HDD won't spin up

December 6th, 2023, 15:41

But the disk become irresponsive .it doesn't spinup
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