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 Post subject: Help with WD10EADS
PostPosted: March 5th, 2014, 15:30 
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A friend of mine has an external hard drive that crashed on him. While attempting to figure out what's wrong with it, I came across this site after some intense googling. :D I've included some audio of the noise the drive makes when powering up and an image of the label on the HDD for all make/model info. The audio didn't come out that great so if I need another recording, please let me know. Any help and/or advice with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

(spins up, clicks can be heard followed by a pause, then a few more clicks, then it spins down).

http://i.imgur.com/eClcrld.jpg?1


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 Post subject: Re: Help with WD10EADS
PostPosted: March 5th, 2014, 17:29 
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Hi, and welcome.
Most likely head problem, very common on those drives.
If your friend need the information, he need to go to a data recovery company.

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 Post subject: Re: Help with WD10EADS
PostPosted: March 5th, 2014, 21:54 
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Thank you for the reply. I came here because that's what I was trying to figure out. Replacing the heads of a drive would require it to be opened up, which would require a clean room to keep the drive safe during the head replacement, correct? So, not really a "do it yourself" kind of job then? I'm assuming that this kind of work is expensive relative to what's on the drive. He'd like to get it back but it's not life ending.


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 Post subject: Re: Help with WD10EADS
PostPosted: March 6th, 2014, 5:04 
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It depends how you define expensive. If the data on the drive is worth the recovery fee, I wouldn't say it's expensive.
Correct, a headswap is definitely not a DIY project.

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