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 8th, 2007, 18:25
I have a Toshiba laptop drive that will work for 30-60sec after reboot or drive reset. It then stops working entirely until I reset it.(reboot in windows) MHDD scans the first few sectors and then goes to DNR. Reset the drive and it will go again. The system area seems fine, does anyone have any ideas/theories before I dissassemble. I have never seen this before.
Thanks for the great forum, by the way.
December 9th, 2007, 11:03
Possibly a bearing problem, common on Toshiba.
Does it sound normal? Or a bit rattlely?
December 9th, 2007, 23:25
It sounds good actually. No vibration. It reads very slowly when it works, which leads me to think heads. Not sure though.
December 10th, 2007, 12:20
mjharless wrote:It sounds good actually. No vibration. It reads very slowly when it works, which leads me to think heads. Not sure though.
This really does sound like a motor slowed by a bad bearing.
Jono
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