WD10EAVS-32D7B1 unable to read data

[harddrivespecialist]

And a smiley at the end of criptic message does not give it much credo.

Will apsence of smiley at the end give it more credibility? I don't think so.

All "might be's"...

Stick around in data recovery for few years and you will be saying the same thing, because there is a lot of variables in this trade.

This gets so tiering lately...

Do you think its not "tiering" to retype same info over and over again, because someone does not want to do a research?

As far as I know, people on this forum, will help you or will point you to a right direction, but not many people, if any, would like to "spoonfeed" others.
Just search and read, search again and read again and your happiness will come eventually.

[Alexii]

ty all. close thread plz.

[networkpc3000]

In some cases head replacment is successful, but some heads may not be aligned. One way in which a HotSwap can help in such situations can sometimes provide access to SA and in fact data.

I can see from your posts that while you are eager, you are not very experienced. Also, you seem quite confident that a head replacement procedure will work for you. Have you tried this before?

with my experience some of these case i will pass head replacement first. why make it more complexity
@Alexii you should do more and think more. these kind of drive no hard to understand.

[unknown]

hddguy,

[hddguy]

with my experience

Alexii has not enough experience...

will pass head replacement first.

Agreed, but alternatives require knowledge and experience...

why make it more complexity

Alexii has confidence it will work....

[Alexii]

In some cases head replacment is successful, but some heads may not be aligned. One way in which a HotSwap can help in such situations can sometimes provide access to SA and in fact data.

I can see from your posts that while you are eager, you are not very experienced. Also, you seem quite confident that a head replacement procedure will work for you. Have you tried this before?

Yes. I did succesfull head swaps before. And I did head swap on a trashed drive we had in our bin with same specs as the one in question. That drive also had the access to SA only , no lba. To test myself i removed those heads and put them back in. Same access to SA only after the procedure. Going to source the drive and try to put good heads in. Now like i already explained myself , i maybe misundertood HddSpazes reply here, but what trigered me was "why not both " part. If i do the head swap - there is absolutly no need for a HOT swap ... So i felt like i am being yanked a bit... On another note we hav 3 drives that fail in exactly the same way. That usually indicates specific problem with a specific drive. Faulty batch came from the factory with weak heads or smth. Or logical issue with adaptives or smth. Thats why i requested help. Not for the purpose of general diagnostics. Yet it seems that nothing is specific. Like i was told , a gentleman here did some of em with head swap , some with hot swap , and some with no "swap" at all ( that last part intrigues me , but i guess ill be told to do my own research into the problem, so ill just drop it ) Anyway , if there is nothing specific about that drive model going on and its all just random fails - ill treat it as such. Ty all again.


PS Just got a wd1600JS-40mvb1 to play with. Removed heads and put em back =) Still working. Going to do it till it dies on me.